Guankou, bed 32 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Henan, China (34.6° N, 113.0° E: paleocoordinates 4.9° S, 145.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Yujinia trilobite zone, Zhangxia Formation, Taijangian (509.0 - 504.5 Ma)

• sample H2057-23(1) of bed 32 (5.98 m thick), Zhangxia (=Changhia) Formation, Changhian (N China) = upper Taijiangian, stage 5 of Cambrian series 3

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• N China Platform
• grey oolitic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: W. Zhang, L. Xiang, Y. Liu and X. Meng. 1995. Cambrian stratigraphy and trilobites from Henan. Palaeontologia Cathayana 6:1-166 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 129017: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.06.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Proasaphiscidae
  - Wuaniidae
Megagraulos sp. Kobayashi 1935 trilobite