Konggiri section, KG-14 (Cambrian of South Korea)

Where: South Korea (37.3° N, 128.4° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 16.0° N, 92.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eochuangia hana trilobite zone, Machari Formation (Yongwol Group), Taoyuanian (495.2 - 486.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, dolomitic limestone

• shallow marine continental shelf
• thin-bedded dolomitic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: D. K. Choi, J. G. Lee, and B. C. Sheen. 2004. Upper Cambrian agnostoid trilobites from the Machari Formation,Yongwol, Korea. Geobios 37:159-189 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133456: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.09.2012

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Haniwoides longus Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Elviniidae
Irvingella convexa Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
 Olenida - Pterocephaliidae