Youyang (Cambrian of China)

Where: Chongqing, China (28.9° N, 108.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.1° N, 151.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: W. T. Zhang, Y. H. Lu, Z. L. Zhu, Y. Y. Qian, H. L. Lin, Z. Zhou, S. Zhang and J. L. Yuan. 1980. Cambrian trilobite faunas of southwestern China. Palaeontologia Sinica, new series B 16:1-497 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128045: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.05.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Catillicephalidae
Distazeris (Paradistazeris) sichuanensis n. sp. Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite