Saima (Cambrian to of China)

Where: Liaoning, China (41.0° N, 124.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.6° N, 139.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chuangia trilobite zone, Paishan Formation, Paibian to Paibian (501.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• Chuangia zone of n China Platform area

• 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 126845: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.04.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae