Shenjiawan, unit 30, 62a (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (29.1° N, 111.0° E: paleocoordinates 20.7° N, 147.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Leiagnostus cf. bexelli-Archaeuloma taoyuanense trilobite zone, Shenjiawan Formation, Niuchehean (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• sample 62a of bed 30, Cambrian stage 10

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt
• dark gray thin-bedded laminated limestone bearing limestone lenses with intercalations of light gray medium-bedded compact limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, 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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107333: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
 Ellesmerocerida - Huaiheceratidae
Conodonta
 Paraconodontida -
Furnishina furnishi Muller 1959 conodont
 Proconodontida - Proconodontidae
Proconodontus muelleri Miller 1969 conodont
  - Amphigeisinidae
"Prooneotodus tenuis" = Phakelodus tenuis
"Prooneotodus tenuis" = Phakelodus tenuis Muller 1959 conodont