Laoyingshan, 30 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Anhui, China (32.6° N, 116.9° E: paleocoordinates 18.8° N, 153.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hsuchuangia-Ruichengella trilobite zone, Laoyingshan Formation, Taijangian (509.0 - 504.5 Ma)

• lower Hsuchuangian, Taijiangian, stage 5 of Cambrian series 3

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and lithified shale

• N China Platform
• Laoyingshan Formation: light grey, yellowish green and grey medium- to thick-bedded microsparite bioclastic limestones, intercalated with thin-bedded oomicrite and some purple shales

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: J. L. Yuan and Y. Li. 1999. Lower-Middle Cambrian boundary and trilobite fauna at Laoyingshan, Huainan, Anhui. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 38(4):407-422 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125514: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Crepicephalidae
? Hsuchuangia sp.
? Hsuchuangia sp. Lu and Zhu 1983 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Inouyiidae
Inouyiidae indet.
Inouyiidae indet. Chang 1963 trilobite