Where: Shandong, China (36.5° N, 116.9° E: paleocoordinates 1.7° S, 145.5° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zhangxia Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: intrashelf or intraplatform reef; lithified, massive, lenticular, calcareous reef rocks

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Collected by J.H. Lee; reposited in the NIGPAS

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: J.-H. Lee, J. Woo, and D.-J. Lee. 2016. The earliest reef-building anthaspidellid sponge Rankenella zhangxianensis n. sp. from the Zhangxia Formation (Cambrian Series 3), Shandong Province, China. Journal of Paleontology 90(1):1-9 [J. Lee/J. Lee]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221447: authorized by Jeong-Hyun Lee, entered by Jeong-Hyun Lee on 05.08.2021, edited by Pete Wagner

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