Where: Hubei, China (30.8° N, 111.1° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 160.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Huangshandong Formation, Meishucunian (530.7 - 521.0 Ma)
• upper bed, 0.20 m thick, Palaeosulcachites-Lenatheca-Zhijinites-Heraultipegma-Sachites-Zeugites assemblage, also known as Tianzhushan Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy phosphorite
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: Y. Qian, M. Chen, and Y. Y. Chen. 1979. Hyolithids and other small shelly fossils from the Lower Cambrian Huangshandong Formation in the eastern part of the Yangtze Gorge. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 18(3):207-230 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 107665: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.04.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scyphozoa | |
Cambrotubulus decurvatus Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish
Tiksitheca huangshandongensis Qian et al. 1979 jellyfish
Anabarites trisulcatus Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish | |
Archaeooides granulatus | |
"Archaeooides granulatus" = Archaeooides granulatus
"Archaeooides granulatus" = Archaeooides granulatus Qian 1977 | |
Archaeooides acuspinatus | |
"Archaeooides acuspinatus" = Archaeooides granulatus
"Archaeooides acuspinatus" = Archaeooides granulatus Qian 1977 | |
Coeloscleritophora | |
Sachites minus Qian et al. 1979 | |
Pseudorthotheca bistriata Qian 1978 | |
Protoconodonta | |
Protohertzina anabarica Missarzhevsky 1973 | |
"Palaeosulcachites shipaiensis" = Siphogonuchites triangularis
"Palaeosulcachites shipaiensis" = Siphogonuchites triangularis Qian 1977 | |
Hyolitha | |
"Paragloborilus mirus" = Cupittheca mira, Eogloborilus pyriformis, Lophotheca costellata, Turcutheca sp.
"Paragloborilus mirus" = Cupittheca mira He 1977
Eogloborilus pyriformis Qian 1977
Lophotheca costellata Qian 1978
Turcutheca sp. Rozanov et al. 1969 | |
"Circotheca subcurvata" = Conotheca subcurvata, "Circotheca longiconica" = Conotheca subcurvata
"Circotheca subcurvata" = Conotheca subcurvata Yü 1974
"Circotheca longiconica" = Conotheca subcurvata Yü 1974 | |
Brachiopoda | |