Kuruktag Mountains, W1 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (41.5° N, 90.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° S, 142.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Xidashan Formation, Nangaoian (521.0 - 514.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• The Xidashan Formation is composed of blackish grey arenaceous limestones and argillaceous limestones, occasionally with siliceous bands of thin layers of nodular limestones and shales. The total thickness is about 60-88 meters.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: Z. L. Zhu and H. L. Lin. 1983. Some Early Cambrian trilobites from the Xidashan Formation of Kuruktag, Xinjiang. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 22(1):21-30 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127611: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.05.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Kootenia "sp. 2", Kootenia yui
Kootenia "sp. 2" Walcott 1899 trilobite
Kootenia yui Chang 1963 trilobite
subsp. kuruktagensis