Konggiri section, KG-23 (Cambrian of South Korea)

Where: South Korea (37.3° N, 128.4° E: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 144.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Agnostotes orientalis trilobite zone, Machari Formation (Yongwol Group), Taoyuanian (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified limestone

• shallow marine continental shelf
• shale-parted limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: D. K. Choi, J. G. Lee, and B. C. Sheen. 2004. Upper Cambrian agnostoid trilobites from the Machari Formation,Yongwol, Korea. Geobios 37:159-189 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133464: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.09.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Elviniidae
Irvingella coreanica
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Haniwoides longus, Proceratopyge promisca
Haniwoides longus Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
Proceratopyge promisca Choi et al. 2008 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
"Chuangia sp." = Schantungia
"Chuangia sp." = Schantungia Lorenz 1906 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
"Pseudagnostus josepha" = Pseudagnostus josephus, ? Pseudagnostus dividuus
"Pseudagnostus josepha" = Pseudagnostus josephus Hall 1863
? Pseudagnostus dividuus Choi et al. 2004
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Ivshinagnostus quadratus, Kormagnostus inventus, "Pseudorhaptagnostus tumidus" = Neoagnostus tumidus, "Micragnostus aff. intermedius" = Micragnostus pehuenchensis
Ivshinagnostus quadratus Choi et al. 2004
Kormagnostus inventus Shergold 1982
"Pseudorhaptagnostus tumidus" = Neoagnostus tumidus Sun 1989
"Micragnostus aff. intermedius" = Micragnostus pehuenchensis Rusconi 1953
 Agnostida - Pseudagnostidae
Yongwolagnostus stenorhachis