Abazhai (Cambrian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (26.6° N, 106.5° E: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 161.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Taozichong Formation), Meishucunian (530.7 - 521.0 Ma)

• Anabarites-Circotheca-Protohertzina assemblage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, carbonaceous shale and lithified phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Qian and G. Yin. 1984. Small shelly fossils from the lowest Cambrian in Guizhou. Professional Papers of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology 13:91-124 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106519: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

Protoconodonta
  -
Protohertzina sp. Missarzhevsky 1973
Protohertzina anabarica Missarzhevsky 1973
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
"Circotheca obesa" = Conotheca subcurvata, Circotheca sp.
"Circotheca obesa" = Conotheca subcurvata YĆ¼ 1974
Circotheca sp. Syssoiev 1958
Scyphozoa
 Coronatae -
Olivooides sp. Qian 1977 jellyfish
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Anabarites sp. Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish
Anabarites trisulcatus Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish
Cambroclavida
  - Zhijinitidae
Zhijinites sp. Qian 1978