Where: Hubei, China (30.7° N, 111.1° E: paleocoordinates 29.1° N, 160.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Yanjiahe Formation, Nemakit-Daldynian (538.8 - 525.5 Ma)
• beds 1-5, up to 40 m thick
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified dolomite and lithified shale
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: J. Guo, Y. Li, J. Han, X. Zhang, Z. Zhang, Q. Ou, J. Liu, D. Shu, S. Maruyama and T. Komiya. 2008. Fossil association from the Lower Cambrian Yanjiahe Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area, Hubei, south China. Acta Geologica Sinica 82(6):1124-1132 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 97556: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.08.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Micrhystridium regulare acritarchs | |
Vendotaenia | |
Vendotaenia sp. Gnilovskaya 1971 | |
Yuknessia | |
? Yuknessia sp. Walcott 1919 | |
Scyphozoa | |
Anabarites trisulcatus Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish | |
Helcionelloida | |
"Aldanella yangjiaheensis" = Aldanella attleborensis
"Aldanella yangjiaheensis" = Aldanella attleborensis Shaler and Foerste 1888 | |
Emeiconus antiqua | |
"Emeiconus antiqua" = Purella antiqua
| |
Brachiopoda | |
Lapworthella sp. Cobbold 1921 | |
Hyolitha | |
"Circotheca longiconica" = Conotheca subcurvata
"Circotheca longiconica" = Conotheca subcurvata Yü 1974 | |
Protoconodonta | |
Protohertzina sp. Missarzhevsky 1973 | |
Konglingiphyton | |
? Konglingiphyton sp. Chen and Xiao 1992 | |
Protoconites minor | |
Protoconites minor Chen et al. 1994 |