Where: Shandong, China (36.5° N, 116.9° E: paleocoordinates 3.9° S, 143.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• sample BW37 of unit 3 (4 m thick)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: C. L. Chu. 1959. Trilobites from the Kushan Formation of north and northeastern China. Memoirs of the Institute of Palaeontology Academia Sinica 2:44-128 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 129897: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.06.2012

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