Occurrence of Microdictyon from the lower Cambrian Xinji Formation along the southern margin of the North China Platform

• Published in: Journal of Paleontology
• Main Authors: Pan, Bing, Topper, Timothy P., Skovsted, Christian B., Miao, Lanyun, Li, Guoxiang
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS 2018
• Subjects: PARARAIA-BUNYEROOENSIS ZONE; CHENGJIANG LAGERSTATTE; ARTICULATED HALKIERIIDS; FLINDERS RANGES; SHELLY FOSSILS; KAILI-BIOTA; AUSTRALIA; LOBOPOD; FAUNA; GREENLAND; Paleontology; Flinders; Greenland
• Online Access: http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/17727; https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2017.47

Disarticulated net-like plates of the lobopod Microdictyon had a near cosmopolitan distribution from the early to middle Cambrian but are yet to be documented from the North China Platform. Here we report isolated plates of Microdictyon from the lower Cambrian Xinji Formation (Stage 4, Series 2) of...