Fulu Biota (Cambrian of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (23.3° N, 105.5° E: paleocoordinates 30.0° N, 149.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Linguagnostus reconditus trilobite zone, Longha Formation, Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: S.-C. Peng, X.-F. Yang, Y. Lu, X.-J. Zhu, H.-J. Sun, S. Zamora, Y.-Y. Mao and Y.-C. Zhang. 2020. Fulu biota, a new exceptionally-preserved Cambrian fossil assemblage from the Longha Formation in southeastern Yunnan. Palaeoworld 29:453-461 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 219647: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 14.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Trilobita
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Damesellidae indet. Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
Bergeronites sp. Sun 1937 trilobite
Palaeadotes hunanensis Yang 1977 trilobite
Damesops sp. Chu 1959 trilobite
Teinistion sp. Monke 1905 trilobite
 Asaphida - Anomocaridae
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Shumardiidae indet. Lake 1907 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Liostracinidae
Liostracina sp. Monke 1903 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
Torifera sp. Wolfart 1974 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
Ammagnostus wangcunensis Peng and Robison 2000
 Agnostida - Clavagnostidae
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Hadragnostus modestus Lochman 1944
Agnostus sp. Brongniart 1822
Kormagnostus minutus Schrank 1975
Crustacea
 Canadaspidida - Canadaspididae
Canadaspis sp. Novozhilov in Orlov 1960
Ostracoda
  -
Palaeoscolecida
  -
Palaeoscolecida indet. Conway-Morris and Robison 1986
Hyolitha
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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Obolidae indet. King 1846
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866
Stylophora
 Mitrata - Mitrocystitidae
 Rhombifera - Dibrachicystidae
Dibrachicystidae indet. Zamora and Smith 2011
Eocrinoidea
 Gogiida - Eocrinidae
Eocrinidae indet. Jaekel 1918
Doushantuophyton
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Doushantuophyton sp. Steiner 1994