Where: Hubei, China (30.8° N, 111.2° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 160.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Huangshandong Formation, Meishucunian (530.7 - 521.0 Ma)
• lower bed, 2 m thick, Anabarites-Circotheca-Protohertzina-Shipaitubulus assemblage, also known as Tianzhushan Formation, Lower Meishucunian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, sandy dolomite
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: Y. Qian, M. Chen, and Y. Y. Chen. 1979. Hyolithids and other small shelly fossils from the Lower Cambrian Huangshandong Formation in the eastern part of the Yangtze Gorge. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 18(3):207-230 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 107635: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.04.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scyphozoa | |
Anabarites trisulcatus Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish | |
Hyolitha | |
"Circotheca nana" = Conotheca subcurvata
"Circotheca nana" = Conotheca subcurvata YĆ¼ 1974 | |
Protoconodonta | |
Protohertzina anabarica Missarzhevsky 1973 |