NXC-21 - Xinli section [Xinli Mbr, Degying Fm]: Early/Lower Cambrian, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Shaanxi |
| Coordinates: | 32.5° North, 107.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 28.2° North, 164.6° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 1-3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Cambrian | Small shelly zone: | Anabarites trisulcatus-Protohertzina anabarica |
| Age range of interval: | 538.80000 - 509.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified dolomite |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Dolomite. In general formation described as dark phosphatic carbonates, siltstones, and cherts. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens and facies descriptions. | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Carbonate platform. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with phosphate |
| Lagerst�tten type: | conservation |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,chemical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Presumably collected by Steiner and others, c. 2000. REPOSITORY: TU Berlin collection (TUBACK). | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for invertebrate fosssils. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature and species resolution identifications. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 86580 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-02-08 16:17:27 | Last modified: | 2018-10-08 11:48:37 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-02-08 16:17:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29166. | 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] |