Niuxintai (Cambrian of China)

Where: Liaoning, China (41.3° N, 123.9° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° N, 138.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chiushukou Member (Fengshan Formation), Niuchehean (489.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• Mictosaukia-Pseudokoldinioidia perpeltis zones of N China Platform

• bed-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 126774: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.04.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Micragnostus chiushuensis