Jijiapo, bed 4 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hubei, China (30.7° N, 111.0° E: paleocoordinates 28.0° N, 161.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Yanjiahe Formation, Meishucunian (530.7 - 521.0 Ma)

• bed 4, 2.4 m thick; Anabarites trisulcatus-Protohertzina anabarica assemblage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified dolomite

• local depression in a shallow carbonate platform (Guo 2008)
• siliceous-phosphatic-intraclastic dolostone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: P. Chen. 1984. Discovery of Lower Cambrian small shelly fossils from Jijiapo, Yichang, west Hubei and its significance. Professional Papers of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology 13:49-64 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106524: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Protoconodonta
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Protohertzina robusta, Protohertzina anabarica
Protohertzina anabarica Missarzhevsky 1973
Orthothecimorpha
 Circothecida -
Spinulitheca billingsi
Spinulitheca billingsi Syssoiev 1962
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Circotheca sp.
Circotheca sp. Syssoiev 1958
Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Anabarites trisulcatus
Anabarites trisulcatus Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish
Archaeooides
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? Archaeooides sp.
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria sp.
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus tenuis
Hyolithellus tenuis Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966