Qingjiang biota at Jinyanghou section (Cambrian of China)

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

• 2-m thick sections of "black claystone alternating with submillimeter- to centimeter-thick, light gray colored claystones...these black and gray claystone couplets are

•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
  -
Sinocylindra
  -
Sinocylindra sp. Chen and Erdtmann 1991
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Allonnia sp. Doré and Reid 1965
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Demospongiae
 Protomonaxonida - Choiidae
Choia sp. Walcott 1920 demosponge
 Protomonaxonida - Hazeliidae
Hazelia sp. Walcott 1920 demosponge
Crumillospongia sp. Rigby 1986 demosponge
 Protomonaxonida - Halichondritidae
Halichondrites sp. Walcott 1920 demosponge
 Protomonaxonida - Leptomitidae
Leptomitella sp. Rigby 1986 demosponge
Paraleptomitella sp. Chen et al. 1989 demosponge
Leptomitus sp. Walcott 1886 demosponge
Hexactinellida
 Reticulosa - Protospongiidae
Saetaspongia sp. Mehl and Reitner 1993 glass sponge
Dinomischus
  - Dinomischidae
Dinomischus sp. Conway Morris 1977
Dinomischidae
  - Dinomischidae
Xianguangia sinica Chen and Erdtmann 1991
 Bilateria - Eldoniidae
Eldonia sp. Walcott 1911
unclassified
  -
Vetulicolia indet. Shu et al. 2001
Arthropoda indet. Latreille 1829
Burgessia
  -
 Radiodonta - Amplectobeluidae
Amplectobelua sp. Hou et al. 1995
 Radiodonta - Hurdiidae
Hurdia sp. Walcott 1912
 Mollisoniida - Mollisoniidae
Mollisonia sp. Walcott 1912
Deuteropoda
 Isoxyida - Isoxyidae
Isoxys sp. Walcott 1890
 Hymenostraca -
Branchiocaris sp. Briggs 1976
Artiopoda
 Nektaspidida - Naraoiidae
Naraoia sp. Walcott 1912
Misszhouia sp. Chen et al. 1997
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Redlichiidae
Redlichia sp. Cossmann 1902 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Estaingiidae
Estaingia sp. Pocock 1964 trilobite
 Ptychopariida -
Ptychopariida sp. Swinnerton 1915 trilobite
 Bradoriida -
Tsunyiella sp. Chang 1974
Sunella sp. Huo 1965
 Bradoriida - Svealutidae
 Selkirkiimorpha - Selkirkiidae
? Selkirkia sp. Walcott 1911
Corynetis
  -
Corynetis sp. Luo and Hu 1999
 Archaeopriapulida - Ottoidae
Banffia sp. Walcott 1911
Archotuba
  -
Archotuba sp. Hou et al. 1999
 Bilateria -
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida -
Hyolithida indet. Mathew 1962
 Hyolithida - Sulcavitidae
Ambrolinevitus sp. Syssoiev 1958
Burithes yunnanensis Hou et al. 1999
Brachiopoda
  - Mickwitziidae
Heliomedusa sp. Sun and Hou 1987
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866
 Lingulida - Botsfordiidae
Diandongia sp. Rong 1974