Dadoushan Hill, bed 13 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Zhejiang, China (28.8° N, 118.6° E: paleocoordinates 17.6° N, 146.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• sample ADA24(=KD185), 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

• outermost part of the Jiangnan Slope Belt, adjacent to the Jiangnan Basin
• greyish black thin-bedded limestone and argillaceous striped 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 125691: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
"Agnostotes (Pseudoglyptagnostus) clavatus" = Agnostotes orientalis, Pseudagnostus sp.
"Agnostotes (Pseudoglyptagnostus) clavatus" = Agnostotes orientalis Kobayashi 1935
Pseudagnostus sp. Jaekel 1909
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Proceratopyge (Sinoproceratopyge) kiangshanensis