Kunshan, 472.30 m (Cambrian of China)

Where: Jiangsu, China (31.4° N, 121.0° E: paleocoordinates 14.2° N, 147.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: T. R. Lin, H. L. Lin, and T. Y. Zhou. 1983. Discovery of Cambrian trilobites in Kunshan of southeast Jiangsu with reference to the faunal provinciality and palaeogeography. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 22(4):399-412 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127377: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.05.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
  - Monkaspididae
"Monkaspis quadratus" = Monkaspis quadrata
"Monkaspis quadratus" = Monkaspis quadrata Yang 1977 trilobite
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Bergeronites jiangsuensis n. sp. Lin et al. 1983 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Diceratocephalidae
Fenghuangella subtriangularis n. sp. Lin et al. 1983 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Liostracinidae
Liostracina bella n. sp. Lin et al. 1983 trilobite
 Asaphida - Anomocaridae
Paracoosia sp. Kobayashi 1936 trilobite