Yangtzeconus priscus - Archaeospira ornata assemblage, Yangtze Gorge, Yichang (Cambrian of China)
Where: Hubei, China (30.7° N, 111.3° E: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 160.4° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Huangshandong Formation), Tommotian (530.0 - 520.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, red, sandy, calcareous phosphorite
• light gray and red, calcareous and sandy phosphorites
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: W. Yü. 1979. Earliest Cambrian monoplacophorans and gastropods from western Hubei with their biostratigraphical significance. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 18(3):233-270 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 56807: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.11.2005