Shenjiawan, unit 31, 62b (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: 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

• Jiangnan Slope Belt
• dark gray medium-bedded limestone, intercalated with dark gray laminated limestone and one bed of compact limestone at the base

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
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
"Niobella bella" = Niobe (Niobella)
"Niobella bella" = Niobe (Niobella) trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
"Fatocephalus hunanensis" = Pseudokainella
"Fatocephalus hunanensis" = Pseudokainella trilobite