Where: Hunan, China (29.1° N, 111.0° E: paleocoordinates 20.7° N, 147.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Rhaptagnostus ciliensis-Onchonotellus cf. kuruktagensis trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Taoyuanian (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)
• Sample 27 of bed 12. Peng 1992 included the bed in the Bitiao Formation, but following revision of stratigraphic nomenclature (Peng & Robison, 2000), the Huaqiao, Chefu, and Bitiao formations have been grouped into a single unit, the Huaqiao Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified 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 126710: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.04.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Trilobita | |
"Proceratopyge cf. truncata" = Proceratopyge truncatus
"Proceratopyge cf. truncata" = Proceratopyge truncatus Yang 1977 trilobite | |
|
Onchonotellus cf. kuruktagensis Zhang 1981 trilobite | |
|
Acrocephalaspina cf. longa Ergaliev 1980 trilobite
Ketyna cf. karatauensis Lisogor 1977 trilobite | |
| Artiopoda | |
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Rhaptagnostus ciliensis Peng 1992 | |