Where: Shandong, China (36.5° N, 116.8° E: paleocoordinates 6.0° S, 140.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Changshania trilobite zone, Changshan Formation, Taoyuanian (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• Changshania zone of N China Platform area = Agnostotes orientalis zone of S China (Peng 2009)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: X. Sun. 1989. Cambrian agnostids from the North China Platform. Palaeontologia Cathayana 4:53-129 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126768: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.04.2012

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