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: Mictosaukia striata-Fatocephalus trilobite zone, Shenjiawan Formation, Niuchehean (489.5 - 485.4 Ma)
• sample 62b of bed 31, Cambrian stage 10
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified 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 107334: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.04.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Niobella bella" = Niobe (Niobella)
"Niobella bella" = Niobe (Niobella) trilobite | |
"Fatocephalus hunanensis" = Pseudokainella
"Fatocephalus hunanensis" = Pseudokainella trilobite |