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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Trilobita | |
Syndianella guizhouensis, Pseudoredlichia jinshaensis, Zhenbaspis zunyiensis, Zhenbaspis dashapoensis
Syndianella guizhouensis Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
Pseudoredlichia jinshaensis Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
Zhenbaspis zunyiensis trilobite
Zhenbaspis dashapoensis Zhou 1974 trilobite | |
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Drepanuroides sp. Chang 1966 trilobite
Drepanopyge sp. Lu 1961 trilobite
Qingkouia zhangyangouensis Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite | |
"Malungia sp." = Dolerolenus
"Malungia sp." = Dolerolenus Leanza 1949 trilobite | |
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Mayiella sp. Chang 1966 trilobite | |
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Kueichowia lui trilobite
Kueichowia guizhouensis Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite | |
| Artiopoda | |
"Szechuanaspis sp." = Hebediscina
"Szechuanaspis sp." = Hebediscina Rasetti 1972 | |
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Tsunyidiscus sp. Chang 1966 | |