Where: Shandong, China (35.7° N, 117.8° E: paleocoordinates 3.7° S, 144.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Damesella paronai trilobite zone, Kushan Formation, Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• 6 horizons (at 1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.6 m above the base of the formation)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: S. C. Peng, X. F. Yang, and N. C. Hughes. 2008. The oldest known stalk-eyed trilobite, Parablackwelderia Kobayashi, 1942 (Damesellinae, Cambrian), and its occurence in Shandong, China. Journal of Paleontology 82(4):842-850 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128310: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.06.2012

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