Haichongkou, bed 69 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (28.0° N, 109.6° E: paleocoordinates 22.4° N, 146.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jiantang Formation, Niuchehean (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, argillaceous limestone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt
• argillaceous limestone interbedded with limestone breccia

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 130105: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Dikelocephalidae
Saukia sp. Walcott 1914 trilobite