Yanjiahe village, Yanjiahe Fm, Gunziao section, bed 5 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hubei, China (30.8° N, 111.3° E: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 160.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Aldanella yanjiaheensis zone, Yanjiahe Formation, Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; black shale and limestone

• black shale intercalated by lentoid limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. Guo, Y. Li, and G. Li. 2014. Small shelly fossils from the early Cambrian Yanjiahe Formation, Yichang, Hubei, China. Gondwana Research 25:999-1007 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155442: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 14.04.2014

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Taxonomic list

 Hyolithelminthida - Torellellidae
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus ? tenuis Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966
Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Anabarites trisulcatus Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish
Anabarites cf. trisulcatus Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
 Orthothecida -
Tergomya
 Scenelloidea - Scenellidae
Helcionelloida
 Pelagiellida - Aldanellidae
"Aldanella yanjiaheensis" = Aldanella attleborensis
"Aldanella yanjiaheensis" = Aldanella attleborensis Shaler and Foerste 1888
 Helcionellida - Helcionellidae
"Xianfengella ovata" = Absidaticonus ovatus
"Xianfengella ovata" = Absidaticonus ovatus He and Yang 1982
Purella antiqua
  - Maikhanellidae
Purella antiqua Kiær 1916
Protoconodonta
  -
Protohertzina unguliformis Missarzhevsky 1973
Protohertzina anabarica Missarzhevsky 1973