Daoping, bed 10 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (26.9° N, 107.3° E: paleocoordinates 30.1° N, 157.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Minghsingssu Formation, Nangaoian (521.0 - 514.0 Ma)

• Minghsingssu (=Mingxinsi) Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: Y. L. Zhao and Y. Z. Huang. 1981. Early and Middle Cambrian trilobites from Daoping of Fuquan, Guizhou. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 20(3):216-224 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127444: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.05.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Redlichiidae
Mianxianella guizhouensis n. sp. Zhao and Huang 1981 trilobite
Mianxianella expansa Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Yinitidae
Yinites elongatus n. sp. Zhao and Huang 1981 trilobite
Yinites fuquanensis n. sp. Zhao and Huang 1981 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Zacanthoididae
Qingzhenaspis intermedia n. sp. Zhao and Huang 1981 trilobite