Yangjiaping, bed 2 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (29.2° N, 110.9° E: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 159.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: "Nisha" Member (Yangjiaping Formation), Nemakit-Daldynian (538.8 - 525.5 Ma)

• upper part of the "Nisha Member"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; shale

• shales with phosphatic concretions, 2.25 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. M. Ding and Y. Qian. 1988. Late Sinian to Early Cambrian small shelly fossils from Yangjiaping, Shimen, Hunan. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 5(1):39-55 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97715: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.08.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Hexactinellida
 Lyssakida - Hyalostellidae
? Calcihexactina sp.
? Calcihexactina sp. Sdzuy 1969 glass sponge
Quadrorites
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Quadrorites hunanensis n. gen. n. sp.
Quadrorites hunanensis n. gen. n. sp.
Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
"Anabaritellus cylindriculus n. sp." = Anabarites, Tiksitheca irregularis n. sp.
"Anabaritellus cylindriculus n. sp." = Anabarites jellyfish
Tiksitheca irregularis n. sp. jellyfish
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus sp.
Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872
 Hyolithelminthida - Torellellidae
Rushtonia minuta n. sp., Torellella sp.
Torellella sp. Holm 1893
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Conotheca sp.
Conotheca sp. Rozanov et al. 1969