Yangliugang Hill, bed 3 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Zhejiang, China (28.8° N, 118.6° E: paleocoordinates 21.3° N, 151.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Arthricocephalites-Changaspis trilobite zone, Dachenling Formation, Duyunian (514.0 - 509.0 Ma)

• samples Y438-16-G1, -G2

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, dolomitic limestone

• dark grey thick-bedded dolomitic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: Y. H. Lu and H. L. Lin. 1989. The Cambrian trilobites of western Zhejiang. Palaeontologia Sinica, new series B 25:1-287 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125530: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae
Arthricocephalus (Arthricocephalites) sp., Arthricocephalus (Arthricocephalites) granulus, Changaspis placenta
Arthricocephalus (Arthricocephalites) sp. Chien and Lin 1974 trilobite
Changaspis placenta Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite