Where: Sichuan, China (29.6° N, 103.5° E: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 166.1° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Paragloborilus-Siphogonuchites small shelly zone, Maidiping Member (Hongchunping Formation), Nemakit-Daldynian (538.8 - 525.5 Ma)

• AGE: Nemakit-Daldynian; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data (= Paragloborilus-Siphogonuchites zone).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Collection methods: Much of the collection consists of sclerites and preserved steinkerns of spines which underwent diagenic phosphatization of original calcareous walls. There is comparable material from the Dananguo Section, Liangshan, 3km from the Oriental Instrument Plant factory and 10 km north-west of Hanzhong. Samples were collected during a Royal Society Academia Sinica Exchange Scheme in 1986.

Primary reference: S. Conway Morris and M. Chen. 1991. Cambroclaves and paracarinachitids, early skeletal problematica from the Lower Cambrian of South China. Palaeontology 34(2):357-397 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8088: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 19.06.2000

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