Changle, HHC11, Huayuan County, Nantsinkwan Formation, Hunan ( of China)

Where: China (28.6° N, 109.5° E: paleocoordinates 19.3° N, 142.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nantsinkwan Formation, Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified shale

• easternmost part of the Yangtze carbonate platform
• light yellow, greyish-green and purple shale, intercalated in limestone beds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Peng. 1990. Tremadoc stratigraphy and trilobite faunas of northwestern Hunan. 1: Trilobites from the Nantsinkwan Formation of the Yangtze Platform. Beringeria 2:3-53 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66822: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• trilobites only
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
 Asaphida - Hungaiidae