Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Systemic Boundaries in China Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary (2)--Early Cambrian Small Shelly Fossils of China with Special Reference to the Precambrian Cambrian Boundary

中国各系界线地层及古生物 前寒武系与寒武系界线 (二)

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Author: Qian Yi
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 7305005436
Published on: 1989-01
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In this paper, the writer has established eight assemblage zones of these small shelly fossils for the early-middle Early Cambrian, with a discussion on the structural morphology, biological taxonomy, systematic evolution, genetic relationship and stratigraphic significance of these various fossil groups and descriptions of 85 genera (including 8 new genera) and 117 species (including 19 new species) separately belonging to 29 families (including 2 new families), 13 orders (including 2 new orders), 7 classes and 15 various groups, such as Hyolitha, Annelida, Coelenterata, tommotiids, coeleoscleritophorans, Porifera, zhijinitids, chancelloriids, Mollusca, paracarinachitids, Arthropoda, Cyanobactoria, tubular fossils, conodont-like fossils, and globular fossils.

CONTENTS

I.Introdution
II.Key Stratigraphical Sections of the Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary
III.Characteristics of the Early Cambrian Small Shelly Fossils and some Problems of Biostratigraphy
IV.Stratigraphical Correlation of the Early Cambrian and Determination of the Basal Boundary of the Cambrian both in China and Abroad
V.Systematic Palaeontology
VI.References
VII.Explanation of Plates



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