Saima (Cambrian of China)

Where: Liaoning, China (41.0° N, 124.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.3° N, 139.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Paishan Formation, Taoyuanian (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• above the Chuangia zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• N China Platform

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 126773: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.04.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
"Tentagnostus adchinensis n. gen." = Ammagnostus adchinensis
"Tentagnostus adchinensis n. gen." = Ammagnostus adchinensis Schrank 1975
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Homagnostus sp., "Kormagnostella minuta" = Kormagnostus minutus
Homagnostus sp. Howell 1935
"Kormagnostella minuta" = Kormagnostus minutus Schrank 1975