Yankong, Jindingshan Formation, unit 4 (Cambrian to 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: Jindingshan Formation, Nangaoian to Nangaoian (521.0 - 509.0 Ma)

• also known as Chintingshan Formation, unit 4 is 49.5 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, silty shale and lithified limestone

• grayish green, yellowish green silty shale, with intercalated oolitic limestone

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 107128: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.04.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
"Yuehsienszella ichangensis" = Xilingxia ichangensis
"Yuehsienszella ichangensis" = Xilingxia ichangensis Chang 1964 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Palaeolenidae
Megapalaeolenus globus, Megapalaeolenus longispinus, Megapalaeolenus fengyangensis
Megapalaeolenus longispinus Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
Megapalaeolenus fengyangensis Chu 1962 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Estaingiidae
Pseudichangia damiaoensis
Pseudichangia damiaoensis Chang 1964 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Redlichiidae
Redlichia kaiyangensis
Redlichia kaiyangensis Chang and Lin 1974 trilobite