Where: Shandong, China (36.2° N, 117.1° E: paleocoordinates 5.9° S, 140.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kaolishania trilobite zone, Kaolishan Formation, Taoyuanian (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• Kaolishania zone of N China Platform area = Eolotagnostus decorus-Kaolishaniella zone of S China (Peng 2009)

• group of beds-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 126777: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.04.2012

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