Hubei Province [Shuijingtuo Fm]: Atdabanian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Trilobita
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Hyolithida
Hyolithida indet. Mathew 1962
unclassified
Blastulospongia polytreta n. sp. Conway Morris and Menge 1990
see common names

Geography
Country:China
Coordinates: 31.0° North, 112.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.9° North, 159.0° East
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Series 2
Stage: Stage 3 10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 2
*Period:Early/Lower Cambrian *Epoch:Caerfai
Key time interval: Atdabanian
Age range of interval: 521 - 515.6 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shuijingtuo
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: impure limestones
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Collection made from 1987 field excursion organized by the International Symposium on the terminal Precambrian and Cambrian Geology, Yichang.
Taxonomic list comments:The taxonomic list includes unidentified trilobite, brachiopods, sponges, hyolithids, and found in the Shuijingtuo, but does not include bradoriids and acritarchs.
Metadata
Database number:7908
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:P. Borkow
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-06-07 14:36:19 Last modified:2009-04-22 16:20:49
Access level:the public Released:2000-06-07 14:36:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
514. S. Conway Morris and C. Menge. 1990. Blastulospongia polytreta n. sp., an enigmatic organism from the Lower Cambrian, Hubei China. Journal of Paleontology 64(1):26-30 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]