Where: Henan, China (34.6° N, 113.0° E: paleocoordinates 9.6° S, 140.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Changshania trilobite zone, Changshan Formation, Taoyuanian (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• sample H2059-35 of bed 40 (8.32 m thick), Changshania zone of N China Platform area = Agnostotes orientalis zone of S China (Peng 2009)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, argillaceous dolomite

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 129023: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.06.2012

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