Where: Hunan, China (29.2° N, 110.9° E: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 159.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: "Nisha" Member (Yangjiaping Formation), Nemakit-Daldynian (541.0 - 530.0 Ma)
• basal Yangjiaping Formation, Protohertzina anabarica–Kaiyangites novilis Assemblage Zone (Steiner 2007)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: W. M. Ding and Y. Qian. 1988. Late Sinian to Early Cambrian small shelly fossils from Yangjiaping, Shimen, Hunan. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 5(1):39-55 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 97714: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.08.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida | |
Hunanospongia delicata n. gen. n. sp.
Hunanospongia delicata n. gen. n. sp. Qian and Ding 1988 glass sponge | |
Archaeooides | |
Archaeooides sp. Qian 1977 | |
Cambroclavida | |
"Kaiyangites multispinatus n. sp." = Zhijinites, Kaiyangites novilis
"Kaiyangites multispinatus n. sp." = Zhijinites
Kaiyangites novilis Qian and Yin 1984 | |
Protoconodonta | |
Protohertzina siciformis Missarzhevsky 1973
Protohertzina unguliformis Missarzhevsky 1973
Protohertzina anabarica Missarzhevsky 1973 | |
? Lopochites sp. Qian 1977 | |
Conodonta | |
Hertzina sp. conodont |