Shenjiawan, unit 25, 54 (Cambrian of China)

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: Lotagnostus punctatus-Hedinaspis regalis trilobite zone, Shenjiawan Formation, Niuchehean (489.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• sample 54 of bed 25, stage 10 of Cambrian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt
• dark gray, thin-bedded laminated limestone with intercalated light gray, compact limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: S. Peng and L. E. Babcock. 2001. Cambrian of the Hunan-Guizhou region, south China. Palaeoworld 13:3-51 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126725: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.04.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Macropyge (Promacropyge) pinguis, Charchaqia norini, Diceratopyge obesa
Charchaqia norini Troedsson 1937 trilobite
Diceratopyge obesa Peng 1983 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
? Skljarella sulcifera n. sp.
? Skljarella sulcifera n. sp. Peng 1992 trilobite