Bed 04, Xiaotan Section (Cambrian of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (27.9° N, 103.6° E: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 164.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Anabarites trisulcatus–Protohertzina anabarica / Siphogonuchites triangularis–Paragloborilus subglobosus small shelly zone, Zhongyicun Member (Zhujiaqing Formation), Nemakit-Daldynian (538.8 - 525.5 Ma)

• See Figure 1. Meishucunian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated in text.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast, replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

Primary reference: G. Li and S. Xiao. 2004. Tannuolina and Micrina (Tannuolinidae) from the Lower Cambrian of eastern Yunnan, south China, and their scleritome reconstruction. Journal of Paleontology 78(5):900-913 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96322: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 31.05.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protoconodonta
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Protohertzina sp. Missarzhevsky 1973
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872