Where: Yunnan, China (24.9° N, 102.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 159.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Megapalaeolenus 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 | |
Phycodes sp., ? Thalassinoides sp., Planolites sp., Palaeophycus sp., Teichichnus sp., Psammichnites sp., Gordia sp., Merostomichnites sp., Plagiogmus sp., Treptichnus pedum, Diplichnites sp.
Phycodes sp. Richter 1850
? Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944
Planolites sp. Nicholson 1873
Palaeophycus sp. Hall 1847
Teichichnus sp. Seilacher 1955
Psammichnites sp. Torell 1870
Gordia sp. Emmons 1844
Merostomichnites sp. Packard 1900
Plagiogmus sp. Roedel 1929
Diplichnites sp. Dawson 1873 | |
Guanshanichnus glockerichnoides | |
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