Baishiba (Cambrian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (27.5° N, 107.4° E: paleocoordinates 29.6° N, 158.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Qingxudong Formation, Duyunian (514.0 - 509.0 Ma)

• also known as Tsinghsutung Formation, 208 m thick

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified dolomite

• limestone and dolomitic bioclastic limestone in the lower part, dolostone in the upper part

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107131: 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
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Eoptychoparia sp.
Eoptychoparia sp. Rasetti 1955 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Hoffetella sp.
Hoffetella sp. Hupé 1953 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Redlichiidae
Redlichia guizhouensis, "Redlichia murakamii" = Redlichia (Pteroredlichia) murakamii
Redlichia guizhouensis Zhou 1974 trilobite
"Redlichia murakamii" = Redlichia (Pteroredlichia) murakamii Resser and Endo 1937 trilobite