Maotianshan section, Yunnan province - Sun and Hou, 1987: Tommotian, China

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Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Maotianshania cylindrica Sun and Huo 1987
34 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Yunnan
Coordinates: 24.7° North, 102.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.4° North, 162.5° East
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Terreneuvian
Stage: Stage 2 10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 2
*Period:Early/Lower Cambrian *Epoch:Early/Lower Caerfai
*International age/stage:Tommotian *Local age/stage:Qiongzhusi
Key time interval: Tommotian
Age range of interval: 525.5 - 521 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Qiongzhusi
Local section:Maotianshan
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: The local/international stage names and lithology were derived from the International Commission on Cambrian Stratigraphy. URL: www.uni-wuerzburg.de/palaeontologie/Stuff/casu30.htm The main link can be found under "Life in the Cambrian" on the home page.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified mudstone
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Collection consists of Palaeoscolecids, a poorly understood group of fossil worms ranging from Lower Cambrian to the Upper Silurian.
Metadata
Database number:6817
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:P. Borkow
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-03-23 13:21:28 Last modified:2001-03-26 12:14:28
Access level:the public Released:2001-03-26 12:03:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

419. W. Sun and X. Hou. 1987. Early Cambrian worms from Chengjiang, Yunnan, China: Maotianshania gen. nov. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 26(3):299-305 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]