Yanjiahe village, Wushizu section, bed 5 (Cambrian of China)

Also known as Yanjiahe village, Yanjiahe Fm, Wushizu section, bed 5

Where: Hubei, China (30.8° N, 111.3° E: paleocoordinates 27.6° N, 160.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Aldanella yanjiaheensis small shelly zone, Yanjiahe Formation, Meishucunian (541.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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 155446: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 14.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Anabarites cf. trisulcatus Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish
Purella antiqua
  - Maikhanellidae
Purella antiqua Kiær 1916
 Sachitida - Siphogonuchitidae
"Palaeosulcachites ? biformis" = Siphogonuchites triangularis
"Palaeosulcachites ? biformis" = Siphogonuchites triangularis Qian 1977
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Nelegerocornidae
Microcornus ? parvulus Mambetov 1972
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Conotheca sp. Rozanov et al. 1969
Protoconodonta
  -
Protohertzina unguliformis Missarzhevsky 1973
Protohertzina anabarica Missarzhevsky 1973