Where: China (34.3° N, 108.7° E: paleocoordinates 5.7° S, 146.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shuijingtuo Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• late Qiongzhusian age (approximately equivalent to the late Atdabanian to early Botomian Siberian stages), or Stage 3 of Series 2 in the new subdivision

•scheme for the Cambrian System (Zhu et al. 2006).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. X. Li, M. Steiner, M. Y. Zhu and X. Zhao. 2012. Early Cambrian eodiscoid trilobite Hupeidiscus orientalis from South China: ontogeny and implications for affinities of Mongolitubulus-like sclerites. Bulletin of Geosciences 87(1):159-169 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151497: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 04.10.2013

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