Jiangshan, upper Dengying Formation (Cambrian of China)

Where: Zhejiang, China (28.7° N, 118.6° E: paleocoordinates 24.8° N, 154.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• top part of Dengying Formation, Anabarites-Protohertzina assemblage, Lower Meishucunian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. He and G. Yu. 1992. The small shelly fossils from the Palaeocambrian Meishucunian stage in western Zhejiang. Geology of Zhejiang 8(1):1-7 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 108038: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.04.2011

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Taxonomic list

Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Anabarites trisulcatus Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish
Archaeooides
  -
Archaeooides sp. Qian 1977
Cambroclavida
  - Zhijinitidae
"Kaiyangites sp." = Zhijinites, Kaiyangites jiangshanensis n. sp.
"Kaiyangites sp." = Zhijinites Qian 1978
Kaiyangites jiangshanensis n. sp. He and Yu 1992
Conodonta
 Paraconodontida - Furnishinidae
Hertzina sp. conodont
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Conotheca sp. Rozanov et al. 1969
Protoconodonta
  -
Protohertzina unguliformis Missarzhevsky 1973
Protohertzina anabarica Missarzhevsky 1973