Yangtze Gorge [Lower Tianzhushan Mbr, Dengying Fm]: Nemakit-Daldynian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protoconodonta
Protohertzina sp. Missarzhevsky 1973
[entered as Protohertizina sp.]
Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Circotheca sp. Syssoiev 1958
Scyphozoa - Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Hubei
Coordinates: 30.8° North, 111.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.0° North, 160.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Terreneuvian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 1-2
*Period:Early/Lower Cambrian - Middle Cambrian *Epoch:Caerfai
*International age/stage:Nemakit-Daldynian - Tommotian *Local age/stage:Meishucunian
Key time interval:Nemakit-Daldynian
Age range of interval:538.80000 - 525.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dengying Member:Tianzhushan
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: The grouping of beds is 2-3m thick. AGE: Nemakit-Daldynian; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified silty dolomite
Lithology description: silty dolomite
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:soft parts
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Description comes from description of the supplimentary diagrammatic section of the Eastern Yangtze Gorge area (Fig. 4).
Metadata
Database number:10499
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:P. Borkow
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2001-05-14 09:34:38 Last modified:2009-06-12 17:07:13
Access level:the public Released:2001-05-14 09:34:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

423. S. Weiguo. 1986. Late Precambrian Pennatulids (sea pens) from the Eastern Yangtze Gorge, China: Paracharnia gen. nov. Precambrian Research 31:361-375 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]