Collection 4-5 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Jilin Provence, China (42.1° N, 126.7° E: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 139.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mictosukia- Fatocephalus zone trilobite zone, Fengshan Formation, Niuchehean (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• Fengshanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• micrite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Trilobites and Conodonts only, Collected in the Xiaoyangqiao lower section, collection 4-5, 9m from the base of the formation

Primary reference: J.-W. Chen, Y.-Y. Qian, J.-M. Zhang, Y.-K. Lin, L.-M. Yin, Z.-H. Wang, Z.-Z. Wang, J.-D. Yang, and Y.-X. Wang. 1988. The recommended Cambrian - Ordovician global Boundry stratotype of the Xiaoyangqiao section (Dayangcha, Jilin Province), China. In W. B. Harland, C. P. Hughes, R. S. J. Sparks, N. H. Woodcock, I. N. McCave (eds.), Geological Magazine 125(4):415-444 [M. Hopkins/S. Mahmood/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156906: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 02.06.2014

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Trilobita
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Haniwa elongata trilobite
 Asaphida - Dikelocephalidae
Mictosaukia orientalis Resser and Endo 1937 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Conodonta
 Paraconodontida -
Furnishina furnishi Muller 1959 conodont
Prooneotodus gallatini Müller 1959 conodont
 Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
Eoconodontus notchpeakensis Miller 1969 conodont
Cordylodus proavus Müller 1959 conodont
  - Amphigeisinidae
Phakelodus tenuis Muller 1959 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Oneotodontidae
Teridontus nakamurai Nogami 1967 conodont