Yuanjiaping, bed 7 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Shaanxi, China (33.0° N, 106.3° E: paleocoordinates 28.8° N, 166.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kuanchuanpu Formation, Meishucunian (530.7 - 521.0 Ma)

• bed 7, Paragloborilus-Tiksitheca assemblage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Xing, Q. Ding, H. Luo, T. He, and Y. Wang. 1984. The Sinian-Cambrian boundary of China and its related problems. Geological Magazine 121(3):155-170 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107775: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Hyolithomorpha
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Hyolitha
 Orthothecida -
"Cupitheca brevituba" = Cupittheca mira He 1977
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
"Circotheca subcurvata" = Conotheca subcurvata, "Ovalitheca acuticostata" = Conotheca subcurvata, "Circotheca obesa" = Conotheca subcurvata, Laratheca sp.
"Circotheca subcurvata" = Conotheca subcurvata Yü 1974
"Ovalitheca acuticostata" = Conotheca subcurvata Yü 1974
"Circotheca obesa" = Conotheca subcurvata Yü 1974
Laratheca sp. Rozanov et al. 1969
Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae
"Yuanjiapingella longa" = Ocruranus, "Yuanjiapingella curta" = Ocruranus, "Hanshuiella primitiva" = Ocruranus
"Yuanjiapingella longa" = Ocruranus
"Yuanjiapingella curta" = Ocruranus
"Hanshuiella primitiva" = Ocruranus
Kuanchuanella
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Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida - Coreospiridae
 Helcionellida - Helcionellidae
Postacanthella elegans Xing et al. 1984
Absidaticonus triangulatus Xing et al. 1984
Igorella cf. ungulata Rozanov et al. 1969
Securiconus simus Luo et al. 1982
"Maidipingoconus maidipingensis" = Oelandiella maidipingensis Yü 1974
"Anabarella lentiformis" = Oelandiella maidipingensis Yü 1974
 Pelagiellida - Aldanellidae
Aldanella sp. Vostokova 1962
Watsonella
  -
"? Heraultipegma sp." = Watsonella
"? Heraultipegma sp." = Watsonella Grabau 1900
Acutirostriconus
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Tuberoconus
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Gutticonus
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Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Tiksitheca sp. Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish
Tiksitheca licis Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish
"Tiksitheca korobovi" = Anabarites korobovi Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966 jellyfish
Scissotheca
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Ningqiangsclerites
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