Heishapo, units 8-10 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (27.7° N, 106.7° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° N, 158.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• units 8-10, Lower Niutitang Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: J. Peng, J. L. Yuan, Y. L. Zhao and R. J. Yang. 2004. Discovery of trilobite genus Zhenbaspis from the Lower Cambrian Niutitang biota at Heishapo, Songlin, Zunyi, Guizhou, China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 43(3):407-415 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128420: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Protomonaxonida - Leptomitidae
Leptomitus sp. Walcott 1886 demosponge