Balang, 9-1 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (26.7° N, 108.4° E: paleocoordinates 29.5° N, 156.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kaili Formation, Duyunian (514.0 - 509.0 Ma)

• stage 4 of Cambrian series 2

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified mudstone

• Jiangnan slope belt

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: J. L. Yuan, Y. L. Zhao, Z. Z. Wang, Z. Zhen, and X. Y. Chen. 1997. A preliminary study on Lower-Middle Cambrian boundary and trilobite fauna at Balang, Taijiang, Guizhou, south China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 36(4):494-524 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125157: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.03.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
"Probowmania (Mufushania) sp." = Mufushania, Nangaops danzhaiensis, "Paraantagmus (Balangcunaspis) subcylindricus" = Balangcunaspis subcylindricus
"Probowmania (Mufushania) sp." = Mufushania Lin 1965 trilobite
Nangaops danzhaiensis Zhou 1974 trilobite
"Paraantagmus (Balangcunaspis) subcylindricus" = Balangcunaspis subcylindricus Yuan et al. 1997 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Olenoides abnormis Yuan et al. 1997 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae
Euarthricocephalus "sp. 1" Ju 1983 trilobite
Oryctocephalops sp. Lermontova 1940 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Redlichiidae
Redlichia sp. Cossmann 1902 trilobite