Yangliugang Hill, bed 1 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Zhejiang, China (28.8° N, 118.6° E: paleocoordinates 21.3° N, 151.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hunanocephalus trilobite zone, Hotang Formation, Nangaoian (521.0 - 514.0 Ma)

• sample GD01

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified limestone

• black carbonaceous shale, siliceous shale and coal, basal part with phosphate nodules, trilobites in the carbonaceous and dolomitic limestones at the top

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: Y. H. Lu and H. L. Lin. 1989. The Cambrian trilobites of western Zhejiang. Palaeontologia Sinica, new series B 25:1-287 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125528: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae
Hunanocephalus ovalis
Hunanocephalus ovalis Lee 1963 trilobite