ammonites
Dayan (Cambrian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (28.3° N, 106.3° E: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 162.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• lower part of Dayan Member, Anabarites-Circotheca-Protohertzina assemblage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Qian and G. Yin. 1984. Small shelly fossils from the lowest Cambrian in Guizhou. Professional Papers of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology 13:91-124 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106516: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.03.2011