Boshan (Cambrian to of China)

Where: Shandong, China (36.5° N, 117.8° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° S, 145.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Amphoton trilobite zone, Zhangxia Formation, Taijangian to Taijangian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• C17, Zhangxia (=Changhia) Formation, Amphoton zone of N China Platform area = Ptychagnostus atavus-Goniagnostus nathorsti zones of S China (Peng 2009)

• 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 126901: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.04.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Peronopsidae
Peronopsis ozakii
Peronopsis ozakii Resser and Endo 1937
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Iniospheniscus nodai
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Hypagnostus parvifrons
Hypagnostus parvifrons Linnarsson 1869