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 (541.0 - 516.0 Ma)
• upper bed, 0.17 m thick, Palaeosulcachites-Lenatheca-Zhijinites-Heraultipegma-Sachites-Zeugites assemblage, also known as Tianzhushan Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy phosphorite
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 107636: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.04.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scyphozoa | |
Tiksitheca huangshandongensis, Tiksitheca cf. licis, "Tiksitheca korobovi" = Anabarites korobovi, Anabarites trisulcatus, Cambrotubulus decurvatus
Tiksitheca huangshandongensis Qian et al. 1979 jellyfish
Tiksitheca cf. licis Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish
"Tiksitheca korobovi" = Anabarites korobovi Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966 jellyfish
Anabarites trisulcatus Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish
Cambrotubulus decurvatus Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish | |
Huangshandongella bella | |
Huangshandongella bella Qian et al. 1979 | |
Protopterygotheca | |
Coeloscleritophora | |
"Palaeosulcachites shipaiensis" = Siphogonuchites triangularis
"Palaeosulcachites shipaiensis" = Siphogonuchites triangularis Qian 1977 | |
Watsonella crosbyi | |
"Heraultipegma varensalensis" = Watsonella crosbyi
"Heraultipegma varensalensis" = Watsonella crosbyi Grabau 1900 | |
Helcionelloida | |
"Lapworthella honorabilis" = Obtusoconus honorabilis
"Lapworthella honorabilis" = Obtusoconus honorabilis Qian et al. 1979 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Hyolitha | |
Lenatheca sp. Rozanov et al. 1969 | |
"Paragloborilus mirus" = Cupittheca mira, Turcutheca crasseocochlia
"Paragloborilus mirus" = Cupittheca mira He 1977
Turcutheca crasseocochlia Syssoiev 1962 | |
"Circotheca subcurvata" = Conotheca subcurvata, "Circotheca obesa" = Conotheca subcurvata, "Circotheca longiconica" = Conotheca subcurvata, "Circotheca nana" = Conotheca subcurvata, Circotheca punctata, Circotheca transulcata
"Circotheca subcurvata" = Conotheca subcurvata Yü 1974
"Circotheca obesa" = Conotheca subcurvata Yü 1974
"Circotheca longiconica" = Conotheca subcurvata Yü 1974
"Circotheca nana" = Conotheca subcurvata Yü 1974
Circotheca punctata Qian 1978
Circotheca transulcata Qian 1978 | |
Paragloborilus subglobosus Qian 1977 | |
Protoconodonta | |
Protohertzina anabarica Missarzhevsky 1973 | |
Pseudorthotheca bistriata Qian 1978
Pseudorthotheca yichangensis Qian et al. 1979 |