Huanglianshu, HBH1, Liye, Nantsinkwan Formation, Hunan ( of China)

Where: China (28.8° N, 109.3° E: paleocoordinates 19.3° N, 142.8° 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
• greenish yellow shales, 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 66823: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.10.2006

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Taxonomic list

• trilobites only
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Trilobita
 Asaphida - Hungaiidae
Dactylocephalus latus
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Geragnostus cf. yangtzeensis