Where: Shandong, China (35.8° N, 117.8° E: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 146.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Crepicephalina zone, Changhia Formation, Middle Cambrian (513.0 - 501.0 Ma)
• Drumian stage (Cambrian Series 3).
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified carbonate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: T.-Y. Park, J. Woo, D.-J. Lee, D.-C. Lee, S. Lee, Z. Han, S. K. Chough and D. K. Choi. 2011. A stem-group cnidarian described from the mid-Cambrian of China and its significance for cnidarian evolution. Nature communications [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 139841: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 19.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cambroctoconus orientalis | |
Cambroctoconus orientalis Park et al. 2011 |