Where: Hubai, China (30.5° N, 111.2° E: paleocoordinates 25.1° N, 157.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wutingaspis - Eoredlichia trilobite zone, 2 Member (Shuijingtuo Formation), Nangaoian (521.0 - 514.0 Ma)
• within North Chinese Chiungchusuan Stage (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 3). PJW: This is within the Nangaoian regional stage of South China.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, gray, calcareous claystone and lithified, black, calcareous claystone
•analogous to the pelagic background sediments and event-deposited claystones, respectively, of the Chengjiang Lagerstätte...the background beds yield only depauperate assemblages of shelly fossils, whereas the event beds contain exquisite preservation of soft-bodied organisms"
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: soft parts
Primary reference: D. J. Fu, G. H. Tong, T. Dai, W. Liu, Y. N. Yang, Y. Zhang, L. H. Cui, L. Y. Li, H. Yun, Y. Wu, A. Sun, C. Liu, W. R. Pei, R. R. Gaines, and X. L. Zhang. 2019. The Qingjiang biota - A Burgess Shale-type fossil Lagerstätte from the early Cambrian of South China. Science 363(6433):1338-1442 [L. Na/L. Na/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 219687: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 17.04.2021, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
Megaspirellus sp., Quadrolominiella sp., Cnidaria indet., Ctenophora indet., Brachipoda indet., Mollusca indet., Leanchiolia sp., Alaclcomenaeus sp., Kuanyangnaspis sp., Trilobita indet., Palaeoscolecid sp., Priapulida indet., Vetulia sp., Yunanozoon sp., ? Enteropneustra indet., ? Urochordata indet., ? Vertebrata indet., Arthropoda indet.
Arthropoda indet. Latreille 1829 | |
| Burgessia | |
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Liangshanella sp. Huo 1956 | |
| Deuteropoda | |
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Branchiocaris sp. Briggs 1976 | |
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Mollisonia sp. Walcott 1912 | |
| Deuteropoda | |
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Isoxys sp. Walcott 1890 | |
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Hurdia sp. Walcott 1912 | |
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Amplectobelua sp. Hou et al. 1995 | |
| Trilobita | |
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Redlichia sp. Cossmann 1902 trilobite | |
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Estaingia sp. Pocock 1964 trilobite | |
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Ptychopariida sp. Swinnerton 1915 trilobite | |
| Artiopoda | |
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Naraoia sp. Walcott 1912
Misszhouia sp. Chen et al. 1997 | |
| Corynetis | |
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Corynetis sp. Luo and Hu 1999 | |
| Archotuba | |
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Archotuba sp. Hou et al. 1999 | |
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? Selkirkia sp. Walcott 1911 | |
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Banffia sp. Walcott 1911 | |
| Lingulata | |
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Lingulella sp. Salter 1866 | |
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Diandongia sp. Rong 1974 | |
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Heliomedusa sp. Sun and Hou 1987 | |
| Hyolitha | |
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Hyolithida indet. Mathew 1962 | |
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Burithes yunnanensis Hou et al. 1999
Ambrolinevitus sp. Syssoiev 1958 | |
| unclassified | |
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Vetulicolia indet. Shu et al. 2001 | |
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Eldonia sp. Walcott 1911 | |
| unclassified | |
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? Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 | |
| Xianguangia | |
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Xianguangia sinica Chen and Erdtmann 1991 | |
| unclassified | |
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836 | |
| Hexactinellida | |
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Saetaspongia sp. Mehl and Reitner 1993 glass sponge | |
| Demospongiae | |
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Paraleptomitella sp. Chen et al. 1989 demosponge
Leptomitella sp. Rigby 1986 demosponge
Leptomitus sp. Walcott 1886 demosponge | |
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Halichondrites sp. Walcott 1920 demosponge | |
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Choia sp. Walcott 1920 demosponge | |
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Crumillospongia sp. Rigby 1986 demosponge
Hazelia sp. Walcott 1920 demosponge | |
| Coeloscleritophora | |
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Allonnia sp. Doré and Reid 1965 | |
| Dinomischus | |
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Dinomischus sp. Conway Morris 1977 | |
| Sinocylindra | |
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Sinocylindra sp. Chen and Erdtmann 1991 | |