Where: Guizhou, China (26.6° N, 105.9° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 161.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gezhongwu Member, Meishucunian (542.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• Siphogonuchites-Lapworthella assemblage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified phosphorite and lithified, phosphatic dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Xing, Q. Ding, H. Luo, T. He, and Y. Wang. 1984. The Sinian-Cambrian boundary of China and its related problems. Geological Magazine 121(3):155-170 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106514: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.03.2011