Chronostratigraphic Subdivision of the Cambrian of China
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1344/105.000001600Keywords:
Cambrian System, Chronostratigraphy, Lower boundary, Type section, South ChinaAbstract
The chronostratigraphic framework for the Cambrian of South China is reviewed. Currently four series and nine stages are recognized. The Cambrian of South China is subdivided into one pre-trilobite-bearing series, the Diandongian Series, and three trilobite-dominated series, the Qiandongian, Wulingian, and Hunanian. The nine stages are, in ascending order, the Jinningian, Meishucunian, Nangaoan, Duyunian, Taijiangian, Wangcunian, Youshuian, Waergangian, and Hunanian. All of these units have been named recently and are boundary-strato-type- based, with the lower boundaries being defined by the first appearances of characteristic species, most of which hold potential for long-range correlation.
References
Blaker, M. R., Peel, J. S., 1997. Lower Cambrian trilobites from North Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland, Geoscience, 35, 144 pp.
Burrett, C., Jong, J., Stait, B., 1990. Early – Middle Palaeozoic biogeography of Asian terranes derived from Gondwana. In: McKerrow, W.S., Scotese, C.R. (eds.). Palaeozoic palaeogeography and biogeography. Geological Society Memoir, 12, 163-174.
Chang W.T., 1980. A review of the Cambrian of China. Journal of Geological Society of Australia, 27, 137-150.
Chang, W.T., 1986. Correlation of the Cambrian of China. Palaeontologia Cathayana, 3, 267-285.
Chang, W.T., 1988. The Cambrian System in eastern Asia, correlation Chart and Explanatory Notes. I.U.G.S. Publications, 24, 1-81.
Chen Junyuan, 1986. Towards a common language – assessment of Xiaoyangqiao boundary stratotype. In: Chen Junyuan (ed.). Aspects of Cambian – Ordovician boundary in Dayancha, China. Beijing, China Prospect Publishing House, 83-92.
Cowie, J.W., 1986. Guidelines for boundary stratotypes. Episodes, 9, 78-82.
Cowie, J.W., 1990. Global boundary stratotypes. In: Briggs, D.E.G., Crowther, P.C. (eds.). Paleobiology, a Synthesis. Oxford, Blackwell, 471-482.
Cowie, J.W., Ziegler W., Boucot, A.J., Bassett, M.G., Remane, J., 1986. Guidelines and statutes of International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 83, 1-14.
Davidek, K., Landing, E., Bowring, S.A., Westerop, S.R., Rushton, A.W.A., Fortey, R.A., Andrain, J., 1998. New uppermost Cambrian U-Pb date from Avalonian Wales and age of the CamOrdovician boundary. Geological Magazine, 133, 303-309.
Geyer, G., Shergold, J., 2000. The quest for internationally recognized divisions of Cambrian time. Episodes, 23(3), 188-195.
Landing, E. 1998. Avalon 1997 – a pre-meeting viewpoint. In: Landing, E., Westrop, S.R. (eds.). Avalon 1997 – the Cambrian standard. New York State Museum Bulletin, 492, 1-3.
Landing, E., Bowring, S.A., Davidek, K.L., Westrop, S.R., Geyer, G., Heldmaier, W., 1998. Duration of the Cambrian: U-Pb ages of the volcanic ashes from Avalon and Gondwana. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 35, 329-338.
Li Rihui, Yang Shipu, 1988. Trace fossils near the Sinian – Cambrian boundary in eastern Yunnan and central Sichuan, China. Geoscience 2(2), 158-174. [In Chinese with English abstract]
Lu Yanhao, 1959. Cambrian Stratigraphy of China (First Draft). Beijing, Preparatory Committee of the All-China Stratigraphic Commission, 118 pp. [In Chinese].
Lu Yanhao, 1962. Collection of Scientific Papers submitted to the National Congress on Stratigraphy, Cambrian System of China, Beijing, Science Press, 117 pp. [In Chinese].
Lu Yanhao, Zhu Zhaoling, 1981. Summary of the Cambrian biostratigraphy of China. U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, Open-file Report, 81-743, 121-122.
Luo Huiling, Jiang Zhiwen, Xu Congjiu, Song Xueliang, Xue Xiaofeng, 1980. On the Sinian-Cambrian boundary of Meishucun and Wangjiawan sections, Jinn County, Yunnan. Acta Geologica Sinica, 54(2), 95-111. [In Chinese with English abstract]
Luo Huiling, Jiang Zhiwen, Wu Xiche, Song Xueliang, Ouyan Lin, Xing Yusheng, Liu Guizhi, Zhang Shishan, Tao Yonghe, 1984. Sinian-Cambrian boundary stratotype section at Meishucun, Jinning, Yunnan, China. People’s Publishing House of Yunnan, 154 pp. [In Chinese and English]
Luo Huiling, Jiang Zhiwen, Wu Xiche, Song Xueliang, Ouyan Lin, 1987. New advances in the study of Meishucun section of Yunnan. Journal of Stratigraphy, 11(4), 301-304. [In Chinese with English abstract]
Luo Huiling, Jiang Zhiwen, Wu Xiche, Song Xueliang, Ouyan Lin, 1990. The global biostratigraphical correlation of the Meishucunian Stage and the Precambrian–Cambrian boundary. Science in China, Series B, 1990(3), 313-318. [In Chinese]
Luo Huiling, Jiang Zhiwen, Wu Xiche, Song Xueliang, Ouyan Lin, 1991a. The global biostratigraphical correlation of the Meishucunian Stage and the Precambrian–Cambrian boundary. Science in China, Series B, 34(3), 377-384.
Luo Huiling, Jiang Zhiwen, Wu Xiche, Ouyan Lin, Song Xueliang, Xue Xiaofeng, 1991b. Further research on the Precambrian Cambrian boundary at the Meishucun section of Jinning, Yunnan. Acta Geologica Sinica, 65(4), 367-375. [In Chinese with English abstract]
Luo Huilin, Jiangg Zhiwen, Tang Liangdong, 1994. Stratotype section for the Lower Cambrian stages in China, Kunming, Yunnan. Science and Technology Press, 183 pp. [In Chinese with English abstract]
Palmer, R.A., 1998. A proposed nomenclature for stages and series for the Cambrian of Laurentia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 35, 323-328.
Palmer, R.A., 1999. Introduction. In: Palmer, A.R. (ed.). Laurentia 99, V field conference of the Cambrian stage subdivision working Group, International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy, Boulder, Colorado, 1-4.
Peng Shanchi, 1984. Cambrian-Ordovician boundary in the CiliTaoyuan border area, northwestern Hunan with description of relative trilobites. In: Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica (ed.). Stratigraphy and palaeontology of systemic boundaries in China, CambrianOrdovician boundary (1), Hefei, Anhui Science and Technology Publishing House, 285-405.
Peng Shanchi, 1987. Early Late Cambrian stratigraphy and trilobite fauna of Taoyuan and Cili, Hunan. In: Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica (ed.). Collection of postgraduate theses, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, 1, Nanjing, Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House, 35-134. [In Chinese with English summary].
Peng Shanchi, 1990. Upper Cambrian in the Cili-Taoyuan area and its trilobite succession. Journal of Stratigraphy, 14, 261-276. [In Chinese with English abstract]
Peng Shanchi, 1992. Upper Cambrian Biostratigraphy and Trilobite Faunas of Cili-Taoyuan area, northwestern Hunan, China. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 13, 1-119.
Peng Shanchi, 2000. Cambrian of slope facies. In: Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ed.). Stratigraphical Studies in China (1979-1999), Hefei, China University of Technology and Sciences, 23-38. [In Chinese]
Peng Shanchi, Robison, R.A., 2000. Agnostoid biostratigraphy across the Middle-Upper Cambrian boundary in Hunan, China. The Paleontological Society Memoir 53, supplement to Journal of Paleontology, 74(4), 1-104.
Peng Shanchi, Zhou Zhiyi, Lin Tianrui, 1998. Late Middle-Late Upper Cambrian chronostratigraphy of China. In: Ahlberg, P., Eriksson, M. and Olsson, I. (eds). Abstract for the IV Field Conference of the Cambrian Stage Subdivision Working Group, International Subcommission on Cambrian, Lund, Lund University, 20.
Peng Shanchi, Zhou Zhiyi, Lin Tianrui, 1999. A proposal of the Cambrian chronostratigraphic scale in China. Geoscience, 13(2), 242. [In Chinese]
Peng Shanchi, Zhou Zhiyi, Lin Tianrui, Yuan Jinliang, 2000a. Cambrian chronostratigraphy research: present and tendency. Journal of Stratigraphy, 24(1), 8-17. [In Chinese with English abstract]
Peng Shanchi, Yuan Jinliang, Zhao Yuanlong, 2000b. Taijiangian Stage: a new chronostratigraphical Unit for the traditional lower Middle Cambrian in South China. Journal of Stratigraphy, 24(1), 53-54. [In Chinese with English abstract]
Qian Yi, 1977. Hyolitha and some Problematica from the Lower Cambrian Meishucun Stage in central and SW China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 16(2), 255-278. [In Chinese with English abstract]
Remane, J.,Bassett, M.G., Cowie, J.W., Gohrbandt, K.H., Lane, H.R., Michelsen, O., Wang Naiwen, 1996. Revised guidelines for the establishment of global chronostratigraphic standards by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). Episodes, 19(3), 78-81.
Salvador, A. (ed.), 1994. International Stratigraphic Guide—A Guide to Stratigraphic Classification, Terminology and Procedure, 2nd edition. IUGS and the Geological Society of America, 214 pp.
Shergold, J., Geyer, G., 1998. The role of trilobites in the quest for internationally recognized divisions of Cambrian time. Trilobite Papers, 10, 22- 28.
Sundberg, F.A., Yuan Jinliang, L.B. McCollum, Zhao Yuanlong, 1999. Correlation of the Lower – Middle Cambrian boundary of South China and western United States of America. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 38(Supplement), 102-107.
Troedsson, G.T., 1937. On the Cambrian fauna of western Quruq Tagh, eastern Tianshan. Palaeontologica Sinica, New Series, B, 2, 1-71.
Xiang Liwen, 1981. Classification of Cambrian chronostratigraphy of China. In Xiang Liwen, Nan Runshan, Guo Zhen ming, et al. (eds.). Stratigraphy of China, 4, the Cambrian System of China. Beijing, Geological Publishing House, 4- 15. [In Chinese]
Xiang Liwen, Zhang Tairong, 1985. Description of trilobites. In: Stratigraphy and trilobite faunas of the Cambrian in the western part of northern Tianshan, Xinjiang. Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources, People’s Republic of China, Geological Memoirs, Series 2(5), Beijing, Geological Publishing House, 64-136. [In Chinese with English abstract]
Yuan Jinliang, Zhao Yuanlong, Wang Zongzhe, Zhou Zhen, Chen Xiaoyuan, 1997. A preliminary study on Lower–Middle Cambrian boundary and trilobite fauna at Balang, Taijiang, Guizhou, South China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 36(4), 494-524. [In Chinese with English abstract]
Zhang Taorong, 1981. Class Trilobita. In: Paleontological Atlas of Northwest China, Xinjiang Volume, 1. Beijing, Geological Publishing House, 134-213. [In Chinese]
Zhang Wentang, Yuan Kexing, Zhou Zhiyi, Qian Yi, Wang Zongzhe, 1979. Cambrian of Southwest China. In: Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ed.). Biostratigraphy of the Carboniferous sequences in Southwest China. Beijing, Science Press, 39- 107. [In Chinese]
Zhao Yuanlong, Yuan Jinliang, Zhu Lijun, Chen Xiaoyuan, Zhou Pikang, Zhou Zhen, 1996. The division of the Lower-Middle Cambrian boundary in China. Journal of Guizhou University of Technology, 25(4), 14-20.
Zhou Zhiyi, Yuan Jinliang, 1980. Lower Cambrian trilobite succession in Southwest Guizhou. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 19(4), 329-331.
Zhou Zhiyi, Yuan Jinliang, Zhang Zhenhua, Wy Xiaoru, Yin Gongzheng, 1979. Cambrian biogeographical province of Guizhou and neighboring area. Journal of Stratigraphy, 3(4), 258-271. [In Chinese]
Zhou Zhiyi, Yuan Jinliang, Zhang Zhenhua, Wy Xiaoru, Yin Gongzheng, 1980. Classification and correlation of Cambrian in Guizhou. Journal of Stratigraphy, 4(4), 273-281. [In Chinese]
Zhu Maoyan, 1997. Precambrian-Cambrian trace fossils from eastern Yunnan, China: implications for Cambrian explosion. Bulletin of National Museum of Natural Science, 10, 275-312.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Copyright
Geologica Acta is the property of the UB, GEO3BCN, IDAEA and UAB. Geologica Acta must be cited for any partial or full reproduction. Papers are distributed under the Attribution-Share Alike Creative Commons License. This license allows anyone to reproduce and disseminate the content of the journal and even make derivative works crediting authorship and provenance and distributing possible derivative works under the same or an equivalent license.
Author Rights
Authors retain the copyright on their papers and are authorized to post them on their own web pages or institutional repositories. The copyright was retained by the journal from the year 2003 until 2009. In all cases, the complete citation and a link to the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of the article must be included.
The authors can use excerpts or reproduce illustrations of their papers in other works without prior permission from Geologica Acta provided the source of the paper including the complete citation is fully acknowledged.
