Haichongkou, bed 21 (Cambrian of China)

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

• Jiangnan Slope Belt
• limestone breccia interbedded with thin-bedded 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

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
"Proceratopyge (Lopnorites) orthogonialis" = Proceratopyge (Sinoproceratopyge) orthogonialis
"Proceratopyge (Lopnorites) orthogonialis" = Proceratopyge (Sinoproceratopyge) orthogonialis Yang 1978 trilobite
 Asaphida - Anomocarellidae
Neoanomocarella asiatica Hsiang 1963 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Lisaniidae
Shengia sp. Xiang 1963 trilobite