Where: Hunan, China (28.0° N, 109.6° E: paleocoordinates 24.2° N, 150.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Laochatian Formation, Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)
• Laochatian Formation = Huaqiao Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Primary reference: Y. Duan, J. L. Yang, and G. R. Shi. 1999. Middle and Upper Cambrian polymerid trilobites and biostratigraphy, Fenghuang area, western Hunan Province, China. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 111(2):141-172 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 130014: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Proceratopyge (Lopnorites) orthogonialis" = Proceratopyge (Sinoproceratopyge) orthogonialis
"Proceratopyge (Lopnorites) orthogonialis" = Proceratopyge (Sinoproceratopyge) orthogonialis Yang 1978 trilobite | |
Neoanomocarella asiatica Hsiang 1963 trilobite | |
Shengia sp. Xiang 1963 trilobite |