Gezhongwu, beds 12-14 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (26.6° N, 105.9° E: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 161.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Anabarites - Circotheca small shelly zone, Maolongjing Member (Dengying Formation), Meishucunian (530.7 - 521.0 Ma)

• Anabarites-Circotheca-Protohertzina assemblage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Xing, Q. Ding, H. Luo, T. He, and Y. Wang. 1984. The Sinian-Cambrian boundary of China and its related problems. Geological Magazine 121(3):155-170 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106508: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872
Protoconodonta
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Protohertzina anabarica Missarzhevsky 1973
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
"Circotheca subcurvata" = Conotheca subcurvata, "Circotheca obesa" = Conotheca subcurvata
"Circotheca subcurvata" = Conotheca subcurvata Yü 1974
"Circotheca obesa" = Conotheca subcurvata Yü 1974
Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Anabarites sp., "Anabarites trisulcatus" = Anabarites trisulcatus, "Anabarites obliquasulcatus" = Anabarites trisulcatus, Anabarites tristichus
Anabarites sp. Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish
"Anabarites trisulcatus" = Anabarites trisulcatus Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish
"Anabarites obliquasulcatus" = Anabarites trisulcatus Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish
Anabarites tristichus Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish
Hexactinellida
 Lyssakida - Hyalostellidae
Calcihexactina sp. Sdzuy 1969 glass sponge
Cambroclavida
  - Zhijinitidae
Zhijinites sp. Qian 1978