Weishan Hill, bed 3 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hebei, China (39.8° N, 118.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 141.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• samples Tzwh3/Tzwh4 of bed 3 (17 m thick)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• inter-tidal barrier and restricted marine environment
• purplish grey thin-bedded limestone, intercalated with purplish grey thin-bedded edgewise limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: Z. L. Zhu and H. W. Wittke. 1989. Upper Cambrian trilobites from Tangshan, Hebei Province, North China. Palaeontologia Cathayana 4:199-259 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 129584: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2012, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Diceratocephalidae
Cyclolorenzella hebeiensis hebeiensis
unclassified
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Laiwugnathus kouzhenensis
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Diceratocephalidae
Cyclolorenzella hebeiensis tangshanensis, Cyclolorenzella parabola, Cyclolorenzella uniforma n. sp.
Cyclolorenzella parabola Resser and Endo 1937 trilobite
Cyclolorenzella uniforma n. sp. Zhu and Wittke 1989 trilobite
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Damesops cf. convexus, Blackwelderia cf. chiawangensis, Blackwelderia paronai, "Damesella paronai" = Damesella blackwelderi
Damesops cf. convexus Chu 1959 trilobite
Blackwelderia paronai Airaghi 1902 trilobite
"Damesella paronai" = Damesella blackwelderi Walcott 1905 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Quadrahomagnostus cf. tienshihfuensis
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus "sp. 1"
Conodonta
 Paraconodontida -
Westergaardodina matsushitai, Westergaardodina moessebergensis, Prooneotodus sp.