Where: Jiangsu, China (31.4° N, 120.9° E: paleocoordinates 14.2° N, 147.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, dolomitic limestone and lithified, muddy dolomite
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Collection methods: core,
Primary reference: Y. Qian and Z. Zhou. 1984. Middle and early Upper Cambrian trilobites from Kunshan, Jiangsu with reference to their distribution in the Lower Yangtze Region. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 23(2):170-184 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 127387: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.05.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Artiopoda | |
"Agnostascus sp." = Proagnostus
"Agnostascus sp." = Proagnostus Butts 1926 | |
"Litagnostus latilimbatus n. sp." = Kormagnostus minutus, "Kunshanagnostus kunshanensis n. gen. n. sp." = Hadragnostus modestus
"Litagnostus latilimbatus n. sp." = Kormagnostus minutus Schrank 1975
"Kunshanagnostus kunshanensis n. gen. n. sp." = Hadragnostus modestus Lochman 1944 | |
| Trilobita | |
Bergeronites (Palaeadotes) obtusa n. sp., Dorypygella jiangsuensis n. sp.
Bergeronites (Palaeadotes) obtusa n. sp. Qian and Zhou 1984 trilobite
Dorypygella jiangsuensis n. sp. Qian and Zhou 1984 trilobite | |
Fenghuangella lata n. sp., Fenghuangella striata n. sp.
Fenghuangella lata n. sp. Qian and Zhou 1984 trilobite
Fenghuangella striata n. sp. Qian and Zhou 1984 trilobite | |