Xiyangshan, bed 7 (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: Pseudoglyptagnostus clavatus-Sinoproceratopyge kiangshanensis trilobite zone, Huayansi Formation, Paibian (497.0 - 494.0 Ma)

• sample GC19, Pseudoglyptagnostus clavatus-Sinoproceratopyge kiangshanensis zone of Lu and Lin 1989, =Corynexochus plumula zone of S China

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone and lithified, calcareous shale

• outermost part of the Jiangnan Slope Belt, adjacent to the Jiangnan Basin
• blackish grey thin-bedded limestone and dark grey calcareous shale intercalations

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 125562: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Proceratopyge (Sinoproceratopyge) kiangshanensis, Proceratopyge (Sinoproceratopyge) sinuata n. sp.
Proceratopyge (Sinoproceratopyge) sinuata n. sp. Lu and Lin 1989 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus sp.
Pseudagnostus sp. Jaekel 1909