Bed Mb07, Meishucun section (Cambrian of China)

Also known as ?=Bed 7 of Qian & Bengston, ?= Mb7 of Vendrasco et al.

Where: Yunnan, China (24.7° N, 102.6° E: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 162.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Paragloborilus subglobosus - Purella squamulosa small shelly zone, Zhongyicun Member (Zhujianqing Formation), Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, phosphatic, brown, gray dolomite and phosphorite

• Brown-grey phosphoritic dolostone intercalated with phosphorite beds (Vendrasco et al.)

•Grey phosphorite containing galuconitic intraclasts of oolitic and dolomitic silty phosphorite, with 1-2 cm thick layer of yellow phosphatic claystone at top and bottom (Qian & Bengston).

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast

Collected by Parkhaev & Demidenko in 2005; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: P. Y. Parkhaev and Y. Demidenko. 2010. Zooproblematica and mollusca from the Lower Cambrian Meishucun section (Yunnan, China) and taxonomy and systematics of the Cambrian small shelly fossils of China. Paleontological Journal 44(8):883-1161 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 171902: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 22.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Oscillatoriacea
  - Oscillatoriacea
Trifistulella tortilis Parkhaev and Demidenko 2010
 Hyolithelminthida - Torellellidae
Protoconodonta
  -
Protohertzina unguliformis Missarzhevsky 1973
Mongolodus sulcus Parkhaev and Demidenko 2010
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Allathecidae
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
 Orthothecida -
Yunnanopleura accurata
  - Maikhanellidae
"Yunnanopleura biformis" = Yunnanopleura accurata
"Yunnanopleura biformis" = Yunnanopleura accurata Bokova 1985
Xiadongoconus luminosus
  - Maikhanellidae
Purella
  - Maikhanellidae
Purella arcana Val'kov 1987
Canopoconus
  - Maikhanellidae
Canopoconus superatus Feng et al. 2001
Helcionelloida
  - Helcionellidae
Aegitellus placus, Absidaticonus ovatus, Emarginoconus mirus, "Latouchella korobkovi" = Oelandiella korobkovi, "Igorella maidipingensis" = Oelandiella maidipingensis, "Igorella emeiensis" = Securiconus emeiensis, "Bemella simplex" = Securiconus simplex
Aegitellus placus Luo et al. 1982
Absidaticonus ovatus He and Yang 1982
"Latouchella korobkovi" = Oelandiella korobkovi Vostokova 1962
"Igorella maidipingensis" = Oelandiella maidipingensis Yü 1974
"Igorella emeiensis" = Securiconus emeiensis Yü 1979
"Bemella simplex" = Securiconus simplex Yü 1979
 Sachitida - Siphogonuchitidae
Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae
Halkieria wangi Parkhaev and Demidenko 2010
Halkieria sacciformis Meshkova 1969
Halkieria sthenobasis Luo and Jiang 1982
"Eohalobia diandongensis" = Ocruranus finial Liu 1979
Archaeooides granulatus
  -
Archaeopetasus
  -
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria symmetrica Vassiljeva 1985
Pteromidae
  - Pteromidae
Scoponodus renustus Luo and Jiang 1982
Brushenodus prionodes Luo and Jiang 1982
Pteromus rapius
  - Pteromidae
Pteromus rapius Wang 1994
Pteromus jungus
  - Pteromidae
Pteromus jungus Wang 1994
Cambroclavida
  - Zhijinitidae
Cyrtochites
  -
Scyphozoa
 Conularina - Carinachitidae
"Quadrosiphogonuchites curvatornatus" = Carinachites curvatornatus
"Quadrosiphogonuchites curvatornatus" = Carinachites curvatornatus Chen 1982 jellyfish