Jiangshan, lower Hetang Formation (Cambrian of China)

Where: Zhejiang, China (28.7° N, 118.6° E: paleocoordinates 24.8° N, 154.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hetang Formation, Meishucunian (541.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• lower Hetang Formation, Siphogonuchites-Lopochites assemblage, Upper Meishucunian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified coal

• stone coal

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. He and G. Yu. 1992. The small shelly fossils from the Palaeocambrian Meishucunian stage in western Zhejiang. Geology of Zhejiang 8(1):1-7 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 108039: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.04.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Lyssakida - Hyalostellidae
? Calcihexactina sp. Sdzuy 1969 glass sponge
 Bradoriida - Svealutidae
 Protoconodontida -
Kijacus kijanicus Missarzhevsky 1966
 Sachitida - Siphogonuchitidae
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872
Fengzuella zhejiangensis
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Fengzuella zhejiangensis n. gen. n. sp.
Fengzuella zhejiangensis n. gen. n. sp. He and Yu 1992