Weishan Hill, bed 16 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hebei, China (39.8° N, 118.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.3° S, 138.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ptychaspis-Tsinania trilobite zone, Fengshan Formation, Taoyuanian (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• sample Tzwh17 of bed 16 (13 m thick)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• restricted marine environment and submarine shallow bank
• grey thin-bedded argillaceous laminated limestone intercalated with edgewise lenticular 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 129604: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Paraconodontida -
Furnishina sp., Furnishina furnishi, Muellerodus pomeranensis, Prooneotodus sp., Prooneotodus gallatini
Furnishina sp. Müller 1959 conodont
Furnishina furnishi Muller 1959 conodont
Prooneotodus gallatini Müller 1959 conodont
  - Amphigeisinidae
"Prooneotodus tenuis" = Phakelodus tenuis
"Prooneotodus tenuis" = Phakelodus tenuis Muller 1959 conodont
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Connagnostus sp.
Connagnostus sp. Opik 1967
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Tsinaniidae
Tsinania canens
Tsinania canens Walcott 1905 trilobite
 Asaphida - Ptychaspididae
"Ptychaspis subglobosa" = Asioptychaspis subglobosa
"Ptychaspis subglobosa" = Asioptychaspis subglobosa Grabau 1924 trilobite