Xiaoxian (Cambrian of China)

Where: Anhui, China (34.2° N, 117.0° E: paleocoordinates 7.1° S, 142.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Changia trilobite zone, Fengshan Formation, Niuchehean (489.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• Changia zone of N China Platform area

• bed-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 126850: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.04.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae