Shuiyu, Zhongtiao Mountains, lower bed 38 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Shanxi, China (34.8° N, 110.6° E: paleocoordinates 6.3° S, 144.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Crepicephalina trilobite zone, Zhangxia Formation, Taijangian (509.0 - 504.5 Ma)

• sample SR39 of the lower bed 38, Zhangxia (=Changhsia) Formation, Changhian (N China) = upper Taijiangian, stage 5 of Cambrian series 3

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and lithified marl

• N China Platform
• marl and oolitic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: W. Zhang, H. Lin, H. Wu and J. Yuan. 1980. Cambrian stratigraphy and trilobite fauna from the Zhongtiao Mountains, southern Shanxi. Memoirs of Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology 16:39-110 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125302: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Dorypyge shanxiensis n. sp.
Dorypyge shanxiensis n. sp. Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
 Asaphida - Anomocarellidae
Plebiellus obsoletus n. gen. n. sp.
Plebiellus obsoletus n. gen. n. sp. Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Proasaphiscidae
Hadraspis monanensis n. gen. n. sp.
Hadraspis monanensis n. gen. n. sp. Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Crepicephalidae
Crepicephalina ruichengensis n. sp.
Crepicephalina ruichengensis n. sp. Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite