Dadoushan Hill, bed 3 (Cambrian of China)

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• sample KD246

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, dolomitic limestone

• grey medium- to 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 125681: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.03.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae
Changaspis placenta Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite