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Maotianshania cylindrica
Sun and Huo 1987
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Yunnan |
| Coordinates: | 24.7° North, 102.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.8° North, 162.1° East |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Terreneuvian |
| Stage: | Stage 2 | 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 2 - Cambrian 1-3 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Cambrian - Middle Cambrian | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Caerfai - Middle Caerfai |
| *International age/stage: | Tommotian | *Local age/stage: | Qionzshusi |
| Key time interval: | Tommotian - Caerfai | ||
| Age range of interval: | 525.5 - 509 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Qiongzhusi | ||||
| Local section: | Fengkoushao | ||||
| 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 |
| Lithology description: Lithology for the formation is also from the International Commisson on Cambrian Stratigraphy. | |
| Environment: | offshore ramp |
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: | 9783 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | P. Borkow | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-01-18 12:01:00 | Last modified: | 2003-07-18 18:01:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-01-18 12:01:00 |
| 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] |