Xiyangshan, bed 4 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Zhejiang, China (28.9° N, 118.5° E: paleocoordinates 17.6° N, 146.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Proceratopyge fenghwangensis trilobite zone, Huayansi Formation, Paibian (497.0 - 494.0 Ma)

• sample GC17, Proceratopyge fenghwangensis zone of Lu and Lin 1989, =Agnostus inexpectans-Proceratopyge protracta zone of S China

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• outermost part of the Jiangnan Slope Belt, adjacent to the Jiangnan Basin
• blackish grey thin-bedded limestones

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 125560: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus (Pseudagnostus) cf. cyclopyge
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Peratagnostus distinctus n. sp., Tomagnostella sp.
Peratagnostus distinctus n. sp. Lu and Lin 1989
Tomagnostella sp. Kobayashi 1939
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Proceratopyge (Sinoproceratopyge) changshanensis n. sp., Proceratopyge fenghwangensis
Proceratopyge (Sinoproceratopyge) changshanensis n. sp. Lu and Lin 1989 trilobite
Proceratopyge fenghwangensis Hsiang 1963 trilobite