Where: Yunnan, China (24.9° N, 102.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 159.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Palaeolenus trilobite zone, Wulongqing Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)
• Stage 4. Canglangpuan.
•Megapalaeolenus Zone (= upper Canglangpuan, Stage 4 of the South Chinese regional biostratigraphical zonation)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified mudstone and siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: B. Weber, S. Hu, M. Steiner and F. Zhao. 2012. A diverse ichnofauna from the Cambrian Stage 4 Wulongqing Formation near Kunming (Yunnan Province, South China). Bulletin of Geosciences 87(1):71-92 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 139440: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 12.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Plagiogmus sp., Diplichnites sp., Palaeophycus sp., Phycodes sp., Merostomichnites sp., Planolites sp., Psammichnites sp., Treptichnus pedum, Teichichnus sp., ? Thalassinoides sp., Gordia sp.
Plagiogmus sp. Roedel 1929
Diplichnites sp. Dawson 1873
Palaeophycus sp. Hall 1847
Phycodes sp. Richter 1850
Merostomichnites sp. Packard 1900
Planolites sp. Nicholson 1873
Psammichnites sp. Torell 1870
Teichichnus sp. Seilacher 1955
? Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944
Gordia sp. Emmons 1844 | |
Guanshanichnus glockerichnoides | |
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