Kaiyang (Cambrian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (27.1° N, 107.0° E: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 161.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Niutitang Formation, Meishucunian (530.7 - 521.0 Ma)

• lower Niutitang Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Qian and G. Yin. 1984. Small shelly fossils from the lowest Cambrian in Guizhou. Professional Papers of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology 13:91-124 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106520: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

Cambroclavida
  - Zhijinitidae
Kaiyangites novilis n. gen. n. sp.
Kaiyangites novilis n. gen. n. sp. Qian and Yin 1984