Also known as Bed 13 of Qian & Bengston.
Where: Yunnan, China (24.7° N, 102.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 160.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lapworthella-Tannuolina-Sinosachites small shelly zone, Yuanshan Member (Qiongzhusi Formation), Nangaoian to Nangaoian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)
• Given as Meishucunian in text, but this has been ceded to the next stage.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, black siltstone and lithified, nodular phosphorite
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: cast
Collection methods: Specimens stored at Nanjing Institue of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, China
Primary reference: Y. Qian and S. Bengtson. 1989. Palaeontology and biostratigraphy of the Early Cambrian Meishucunian Stage in Yunnan Province, South China. Fossils and Strata 24:1-156 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 96446: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Aculifera | |
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Halkieria sthenobasis Luo and Jiang 1982
Sinosachites flabelliformis He 1980 | |
| Hyolitha | |
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? Turcutheca sp. Rozanov et al. 1969
Paragloborilus circulatus Qian and Zhang 1983 | |
| Brachiopoda | |
Tannuolina zhangwentangi n. sp.
Tannuolina zhangwentangi n. sp. Qian and Bengtson 1989 | |
| Coleoloides typicalis | |
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Coleoloides typicalis Walcott 1890 | |
| Coeloscleritophora | |
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? Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872 | |