Wutingshan, bed 5: Guzhangian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Asaphida - Anomocaridae
Wutingshania lui n. gen., n. sp. Chu 1959
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Liostracinidae
Liostracina krausei Monke 1903
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Menomoniidae
Paramenomonia conica n. gen., n. sp. Chu 1959
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Lorenzellidae
Lorenzella convexa Endo and Resser 1937
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Diceratocephalidae
Diceratocephalus latifrons
Diceratocephalus armatus Lu 1954
Trilobita - Lichida - Damesellidae
Taitzehoia erhtaokouensis Chu 1959
Taitzehoia wangi n. gen., n. sp. Chu 1959
Drepanura premesnili Bergeron 1899
recombined as Neodrepanura premesnili
Shantungia (Parashantungia) elongata
Blackwelderia sinensis (Bergeron 1899)
Teinistion yangi Chu 1959
Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus douvillei (Bergeron 1899)
recombined as Pseudagnostina douvillei
Homagnostus taitzehoensis Chu 1959
recombined as Oedorhachis taitzehoensis
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Liaoning County:Liaoyang
Coordinates: 41.2° North, 123.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.8° North, 141.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Miaolingian
Stage:Guzhangian 10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 4
Key time interval:Guzhangian Trilobite zone: Drepanura
Age range of interval:500.50000 - 497.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kushan
Local section:Wutingshan Local bed:5
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: samples BE409, BE410 of bed 5 (10 m thick)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Lithology description: yellow and green shale
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: N China Platform
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:129894
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-06-29 22:22:18 Last modified:2012-06-29 07:22:18
Access level:authorizer only Released:2015-06-29 22:22:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

42161. 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]