Where: Shaanxi, China (33.0° N, 106.2° E: paleocoordinates 29.8° N, 166.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Anabarites trisulcatus small shelly zone, Kuanchuanpu Formation, Nemakit-Daldynian (538.8 - 525.5 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Kuanchuanpu Fm, which overlies the Dengying Fm, and is overlain by the Guojiaba Fm. AGE: Meishucunian; probably Nemakit-Daldynian; Anabarites trisulcatus-Protogertzina anabarica Assemblage Zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From near middle of section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, phosphatic, black, cherty/siliceous carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: soft parts, replaced with phosphate
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Presumably collected by Steiner and others, c. 2000. REPOSITORY: TU Berlin collection (TUBACK).
Primary reference: M. Steiner, G. Li, Y. Qian and M. Zhu. 2004. Lower Cambrian Small Shelly Fossils of northern Sichuan and southern Shaanxi (China), and their biostratigraphic importance. Geobios 37:259-275 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 86557: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.02.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Protoconodonta | |
Protohertzina unguliformis Missarzhevsky 1973 | |
Scyphozoa | |
Olivooides multisulcatus Qian 1977 jellyfish | |
Anabarites trisulcatus Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish |