Weishan Hill, bed 17 (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 Tzwh18 of bed 17 (3 m thick)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• restricted marine environment and submarine shallow bank
• grey medium-bedded edgewise limestone intercalated with thin-bedded 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 129616: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Connagnostus tangshanensis n. sp.
Connagnostus tangshanensis n. sp. Zhu and Wittke 1989
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ptychaspididae
"Ptychaspis subglobosa" = Asioptychaspis subglobosa
"Ptychaspis subglobosa" = Asioptychaspis subglobosa Grabau 1924 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Tsinaniidae
Tsinania canens
Tsinania canens Walcott 1905 trilobite
Conodonta
 Proconodontida - Proconodontidae
Proconodontus tenuiserratus, Proconodontus sp., Proconodontus muelleri
Proconodontus sp. Miller 1969 conodont
Proconodontus muelleri Miller 1969 conodont
 Paraconodontida -
Prooneotodus gallatini, Muellerodus pomeranensis, Prosagittodontus dahlmani, Westergaardodina sp.
Prooneotodus gallatini Müller 1959 conodont
Prosagittodontus dahlmani Müller 1959 conodont
Westergaardodina sp. Müller 1959 conodont