Where: Hubei, China (30.8° N, 111.2° E: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 161.9° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Shibantan Member (Dengying Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)
• Part of the Sinian System. Paracharnia dengyingensis found 400 meters above the Nantuo tillite and 500 meters below the small shelly fossil assemblages in the lower Tianzhushan Member. The Shibantan Member is 148 meters thick.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, black limestone and chert
Preservation: cast, soft parts
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• Fossils represent the first find of genuine Late Precambrian soft body Edicaran in China. The median stems are preserved as infilled casts and the polyp leaves are preserved as black, film-like, organic compressions. Specimens originally described as Charnia dengyingensis by Ding and Chen in 1981.
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 6853: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 31.03.2000, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Paracharina dengyingensis n. gen.
Paracharina dengyingensis n. gen. | |
Vendotaenia | |
Vendotaenia sp. Gnilovskaya 1971 | |
Hiemalora | |
Hiemalora sp. Fedonkin 1982 | |
Charniodiscus sp. Ford 1958 | |
Pteridinium sp. Gürich 1930 | |
Wutubus annularis n. sp.
Wutubus annularis n. sp. Chen et al. 2014 |