Shenjiawan, unit 31, 63 (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: Mictosaukia striata-Fatocephalus trilobite zone, Shenjiawan Formation, Niuchehean (489.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• sample 63 of bed 31, Cambrian stage 10

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt
• dark gray medium-bedded limestone, intercalated with dark gray laminated limestone and one bed of compact limestone at the base

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 126730: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.04.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Neoagnostus sp. Kobayashi 1955
Micragnostus chiushuensis Kobayashi 1931
 Agnostida -
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Cheilocephalidae
Parakoldinia tholimorpha Peng 1992 trilobite
Parakoldinia shenjiawanensis Peng 1992 trilobite
 Olenida - Dokimokephalidae
Lorrettina shenjiawanensis Peng 1984 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
"Troedssonia longiforma" = Platypeltoides (Troedssonia), "Troedssonia wimani" = Platypeltoides (Troedssonia) wimani
"Troedssonia longiforma" = Platypeltoides (Troedssonia) trilobite
"Troedssonia wimani" = Platypeltoides (Troedssonia) wimani Troedsson 1937 trilobite
 Asaphida - Dikelocephalidae
Mictosaukia sp. Shergold 1975 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
"Niobella bella" = Niobe (Niobella)
"Niobella bella" = Niobe (Niobella) trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
"Fatocephalus hunanensis" = Pseudokainella, "Fatocephalus hungjiangensis" = Pseudokainella
"Fatocephalus hunanensis" = Pseudokainella trilobite
"Fatocephalus hungjiangensis" = Pseudokainella trilobite
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Hunanopyge sejuncta Peng 1984 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Koldinioidia cf. typicalis Kobayashi 1931 trilobite