Huangshandong (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hubei, China (30.8° N, 111.2° 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)

• also known as Tianzhushan Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified phosphorite

• dolomitic and sandy phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: W. Yu. 1984. On Merismoconchids. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 23(4):432-446 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107700: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Yangtzemerisma raris
  -
Yangtzemerisma raris n. gen. n. sp.
Yangtzemerisma raris n. gen. n. sp. Yu 1984
Yangtzemerisma cancellata
  -
Purella
  - Maikhanellidae
"Jinkenites zhaoi n. gen. n. sp." = Purella1
"Jinkenites zhaoi n. gen. n. sp." = Purella1
Huangshandongoconus
  -
Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida - Helcionellidae
"Obtusoconus multicostatus" = Obtusoconus honorabilis
"Obtusoconus multicostatus" = Obtusoconus honorabilis Qian et al. 1979
 Helcionellida - Coreospiridae
Cambroconus minimus n. gen. n. sp.2
Cambroconus minimus n. gen. n. sp.2 Yu 1981
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Circotheca sp. Syssoiev 1958