Yangliugang Hill, bed 7 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Zhejiang, China (28.8° N, 118.6° E: paleocoordinates 18.4° N, 147.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Yangliugang Formation, Wangcunian (504.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• samples GD05; Drumian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• blackish grey thin-bedded limestone

Size class: macrofossils

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 125534: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Reticulosa - Protospongiidae
Protospongia sp. Salter 1864 glass sponge