SNT1 (Cambrian of China)

Where: China (36.3° N, 118.4° E: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 143.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Damesella paronai trilobite zone, Changhia Formation, Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, gray limestone

• light grey- to-grey, medium-to-thick-bedded limestone

•intercalated with grey, thin-bedded limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J.-L. Yuan, J. Esteve, and T.-W. Ng. 2014. Articulation, interlocking devices and enrolment in Monkaspis daulis (Walcott, 1905) from the Guzhangian, middle Cambrian of North China. Lethaia 47:405-417 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 233818: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 29.02.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
Ammagnostus shandongensis
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Anomocarellidae
Peishanoides sp.
Peishanoides sp. Qiu 1983 trilobite
questionably assigned to genus
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Levisia sp.
Levisia sp. Walcott 1911 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Inouyiidae
Jiulongshania acalla
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Parablackwelderia sp., Damesella sp., Guancenshania sp.
Parablackwelderia sp. Kobayashi 1942 trilobite
Damesella sp. Walcott 1905 trilobite
Guancenshania sp. Zhang and Wang 1986 trilobite
  - Monkaspididae
Monkaspis sp.
Monkaspis sp. Kobayashi 1935 trilobite