Wangkolo, Jiawang (Cambrian of China)

Where: Jiangsu, China (34.4° N, 117.4° E: paleocoordinates 4.7° S, 145.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• sample Ls56

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• N China Platform
• grey well-bedded, hard oolitic limestones and non-oolitic limestones, with purple limestone at the base

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: C. L. Chu. 1959. Trilobites from the Kushan Formation of north and northeastern China. Memoirs of the Institute of Palaeontology Academia Sinica 2:44-128 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 129925: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Liostracinidae
Liostracina krausei
Liostracina krausei Monke 1903 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Chiawangella pustulosa n. gen. n. sp.
Chiawangella pustulosa n. gen. n. sp. Chu 1959 trilobite
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Drepanura transversa n. sp., Stephanocare richthofeni
Drepanura transversa n. sp. Chu 1959 trilobite
Stephanocare richthofeni Monke 1903 trilobite