Wa'ergang, unit 26, 32a (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (29.1° N, 110.9° E: paleocoordinates 20.7° N, 147.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Leiostegium constrictum-Shenjiawania brevica trilobite zone, Shenjiawan Formation, Niuchehean (489.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• sample 32a of unit 27, stage 10 of Cambrian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt
• argillaceous, laminated limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: S. Peng. 1992. Upper Cambrian biostratigraphy and trilobite faunas of the Cili-Taoyuan area, northwestern Hunan, China. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 13:1-119 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126682: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.04.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
 Olenida - Olenidae
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Platypeltoides (Troedssonia) wimani Troedsson 1937 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
"Niobella bella" = Niobe (Niobella)
"Niobella bella" = Niobe (Niobella) trilobite
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae