Yaojiayu, Boshan (Cambrian of China)

Where: Shandong, China (36.5° N, 117.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 23.7° N, 97.9° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Liopeishania trilobite zone, Zhangxia Formation, Wangcunian (504.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• Zhangxia (Changhia) Formation, Liopeishania zone of N China Platform area = Lejopyge armata zone of S China (Peng 2009), Drumian

• 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 126819: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.04.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Diplagnostus sp.
Diplagnostus sp. Jaeckel 1909
 Agnostida - Peronopsidae
Peronopsis shandongensis