Where: Zhejiang, China (28.9° N, 118.5° E: paleocoordinates 15.4° N, 142.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lotagnostus punctatus trilobite zone, Siyangshan Formation, Taoyuanian to Taoyuanian (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)
• samples CX40, CX42a; Siyangshan (=Xiyangshan) Formation, Lotagnostus punctatus zone of Lu and Lin 1989 = Lotagnostus americanus zone of S China?, stages 9/10 of Cambrian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone and lithified, calcareous shale
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 125669: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.03.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Artiopoda | |
Lotagnostus punctatus Lu 1964 |