Dadoushan Hill, bed 7 (Cambrian to of China)

Where: Zhejiang, China (28.8° N, 118.6° E: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 146.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lejopyge armata trilobite zone, Yangliugang Formation, Wangcunian to Wangcunian (504.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• sample ADA19, Lejopyge armata zone of Lu and Lin 1989, =Lejopyge armata-Lejopyge laevigata-Proagnostus bulbus zones of S China, Drumian-Guzhangian

• 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 and muddy-banded 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 125685: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Lejopyge armata
Lejopyge armata Linnarsson 1869
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Proceratopyge (Proceratopyge) conifrons