Nizeqing section, bed 19, Dahai (Cambrian of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (26.3° N, 103.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 163.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Anabarites trisulacatus - Protohertzina anabarica small shelly zone, Zhongyicun Member (Zhujiaqing Formation), Meishucunian (530.7 - 521.0 Ma)

• bed 19: 0.6 m thick, Anabarites trisulacatus - Protohertzina anabarica zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Qian, M. Y. Zhu, T. G. He and Z. W. Jiang. 1996. New investigation of Precambrian-Cambrian boundary sections in eastern Yunnan. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 13(3):225-240 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 108255: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.04.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Conotheca sp. Rozanov et al. 1969
Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Anabarites sp. Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872