Yankong, Minghsingssu Formation (Cambrian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (27.6° N, 106.2° E: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 159.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Minghsingssu Formation, Nangaoian (521.0 - 514.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale and lithified, argillaceous limestone

• lower part: gray silty mudrock and siltstone, gray calcareous shale interbedded with grayish-green silty shale and marlstone lenses; middle part: gray to dark gray, medium- to thick-bedded argillaceous limestone with intercalations of dark gray carbonaceous shale (biohermal limestone is PBDB coll. 79911); upper part: yellowish green and grayish green mudrock

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Peng and L. E. Babcock. 2001. Cambrian of the Hunan-Guizhou region, south China. Palaeoworld 13:3-51 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 107057: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.04.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Yukoniidae
"Szechuanaspis sp." = Hebediscina
"Szechuanaspis sp." = Hebediscina Rasetti 1972
 Agnostida - Tsunyidiscidae
Tsunyidiscus sp.
Tsunyidiscus sp. Chang 1966
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Redlichiidae
Pseudoredlichia jinshaensis, Zhenbaspis zunyiensis, Zhenbaspis dashapoensis, Syndianella guizhouensis
Pseudoredlichia jinshaensis Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
Zhenbaspis dashapoensis Zhou 1974 trilobite
Syndianella guizhouensis Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Mayiellidae
Mayiella sp.
Mayiella sp. Chang 1966 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Kueichowiidae
Kueichowia lui, Kueichowia guizhouensis
Kueichowia lui trilobite
Kueichowia guizhouensis Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Dolerolenidae
"Malungia sp." = Dolerolenus
"Malungia sp." = Dolerolenus Leanza 1949 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Yinitidae
Drepanuroides sp., Qingkouia zhangyangouensis, Drepanopyge sp.
Drepanuroides sp. Chang 1966 trilobite
Qingkouia zhangyangouensis Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
Drepanopyge sp. Lu 1961 trilobite