Haoping (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hubei, China (32.7° N, 111.3° E: paleocoordinates 23.5° N, 159.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cheiruroides arcticus-Changaspis transversus trilobite zone, Fengjia'ao Formation, Duyunian (514.0 - 509.0 Ma)

• bed 6, 9.72 m thick, Cheiruroides arcticus-Changaspis transversus zone of Yang 1993, Late Tsanglanpuan-Lungwangmiaoan

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified limestone

• outer shelf
• grey thick-bedded argillo-dolomitic banded limestone, with 2 m of medium-bedded limestone in the basal part

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: J. Yang, S. Yu, G. Liu, N. Su, M. He, J. Shang, H. Zhang, H. Zhu, Y. Li and G. Yan. 1993. Cambrian stratigraphy, lithofacies, paleogeography and trilobite faunas of East Qinling-Dabashan Mountains, China 1-246 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127080: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.04.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae
Changaspis transversus n. sp., Parachangaspis haopingensis n. sp., Cheiruroides (Neocheiruroides) arcticus
Changaspis transversus n. sp. Yang et al. 1993 trilobite
Parachangaspis haopingensis n. sp. Yang et al. 1993 trilobite
Cheiruroides (Neocheiruroides) arcticus Chernysheva 1962 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Eodiscidae
Pagetia sp.
Pagetia sp. Walcott 1916