Shatan, Jixian, bed 38 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Henan, China (35.4° N, 114.1° E: paleocoordinates 6.4° S, 142.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blackwelderia/Drepanura trilobite zone, Kushan Formation, Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• sample H2046-25(1) of bed 38 (6.21 m thick), Blackwelderia and Drepanura zones of N China Platform area = Lejopyge laevigata-Linguagnostus reconditus zones of S China (Peng 2009)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• N China Platform
• grey medium- to thin-bedded argillaceous banded 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 129208: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Blackwelderia paronai Airaghi 1902 trilobite
Stephanocare richthofeni Monke 1903 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Diceratocephalidae
Cyclolorenzella yentaiensis Chu 1959 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Liostracinidae
Liostracina krausei Monke 1903 trilobite