Where: Anhui, China (31.6° N, 117.9° E: paleocoordinates 23.3° N, 157.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Meishucunian (541.0 - 516.0 Ma)
• top of Dengying (=Tongying) Formation and base of Lengquanwang Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. G. Zhang and C. Y. Sun. 1991. Early Cambrian small shelly fossils from Chaohu area, Anhui. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 8(1):19-40 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 107772: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.04.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scyphozoa | |
? Tiksitheca sp. Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish
Anabarites sp. Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish | |
? Olivooides sp. Qian 1977 jellyfish | |
Fomitchella | |
"Fomitchella" sp. Missarzhevsky in Rozanov 1969 | |
Aculifera | |
"Stephaconus sp." = Ocruranus
"Stephaconus sp." = Ocruranus Liu 1979 | |
Monoplacophora | |
Monoplacophora "indet. A" Knight 1952
Monoplacophora "indet. B" Knight 1952 | |
Helcionelloida | |
"cf. Sacciconus sacciformis" = Bemella, Anhuiconus sp.
"cf. Sacciconus sacciformis" = Bemella
Anhuiconus sp. Zhou and Xiao 1984 | |
Protoconus sp. YĆ¼ 1979 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Lapworthella sp. Cobbold 1921 | |
Orthothecimorpha | |
? Spinulitheca sp. Sysoyev 1968 | |
Hyolitha | |
Allatheca cf. nanjiangensis Yang and He 1984 | |
"Actinotheca dolioformis" = Cupitheca
"Actinotheca dolioformis" = Cupitheca | |
? Circotheca sp. Syssoiev 1958 |