Yankong, Douposi 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: Douposi Formation, Duyunian (514.0 - 509.0 Ma)

• 70 m thick

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified dolomite and lithified siltstone

• argillo-calcareous dolostone, thin-bedded siltstone, silty shale

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 107132: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Agraulidae
Chittidilla sp. King 1941 trilobite
Chittidilla similis Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
Chittidilla yunnanensis Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
  - Antagmidae
Onchocephalus veridicus Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Pseudosolenoparia angusta Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
Pseudosolenoparia yankongensis Zhou 1974 trilobite
Pseudosolenoparia normalis Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Proasaphiscidae
Kutsingocephalus kutsingensis Li and Wang 1963 trilobite
Kutsingocephalus yankongensis Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Kunmingaspis yunnanensis Chang 1964 trilobite
Probowmaniella renhuaiensis Zhou 1974 trilobite
Paramecephalus meitanensis Lu 1945 trilobite
? Sinoptychoparia huannipoensis Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
Kaotaia qinkouensis Zhou 1974 trilobite
Kaotaia longa Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
Kaotaia magna Lu 1945 trilobite
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulepis sp. Hall 1863