Bed 13 Phosph. Mine, Qiongzhusi Fm, China - Conway Morris and Menge 1990: Atdabanian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tommotiida - Lapworthellidae
Lapworthella sp. Cobbold 1921
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:China County:Yunnan
Coordinates: 24.8° North, 102.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.2° North, 161.2° East
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Series 2
Stage: Stage 3 10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 2
*Period:Early/Lower Cambrian *Epoch:Middle Caerfai
*International age/stage:Atdabanian
Key time interval: Atdabanian
Age range of interval: 521 - 515.6 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Qiongzhusi Member:Yuanshan
Local section:Meishucun section Local bed:bed 13 of the Kunyang Phosphorite Mine
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly,phosphatic lithified dolomite
Lithology description: phosphatized dolomite
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:chemical,mechanical,peel or thin section,field collection
Collection size:2 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Specimens collected during a Royal Society-Academia Sinica Exchange Sheme.
Metadata
Database number:8332
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:P. Borkow
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-07-06 22:37:53 Last modified:2001-03-27 12:03:04
Access level:the public Released:2001-03-27 12:03:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
572. S. Conway Morris and M. Chen. 1990. Tommotiids from the Lower Cambrian of South China. Journal of Paleontology 64(2):169-184 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Wagner]