H-157-5 - Section near Guole (Cambrian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (23.3° N, 106.1° E: paleocoordinates 27.4° N, 144.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Tsinania-Ptychaspis trilobite zone, Guole Formation, Furongian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, argillaceous limestone and lithified dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R.-B. Zhan, J. Jin, J.-Y. Rong, X.-J. Zhu, and N.-R. Han. 2010. Late Cambrian brachiopods from Jingxi, Guangxi Province, South China. Alcheringa 34:99-133 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 116412: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 07.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• The reference mentions an abundant and diverse trilobite fauna at this locality, including 22 genera and 29 species.
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Tetralobulidae