Wutingshan, bed 3 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Liaoning, China (41.2° N, 123.3° E: paleocoordinates 2.8° N, 141.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Drepanura trilobite zone, Kushan Formation, Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• sample BE413 of bed 3 (3.5 m thick)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, calcareous shale and lithified limestone

• N China Platform
• yellow and greyish yellow calcareous shale, with limestone nodules

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: C. L. Chu. 1959. Trilobites from the Kushan Formation of north and northeastern China. Memoirs of the Institute of Palaeontology Academia Sinica 2:44-128 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126815: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.04.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
"Pseudagnostus douvillei" = Pseudagnostina douvillei
"Pseudagnostus douvillei" = Pseudagnostina douvillei Bergeron 1899
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Liostracinidae
Liostracina krausei Monke 1903 trilobite
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Drepanura ketteleri Woodward 1905 trilobite
Blackwelderia sinensis Bergeron 1899 trilobite