Shenjiawan, unit 29, 61: Niuchehean, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Asaphida - Nileidae
Troedssonia wimani (Troedsson 1937)
Berkutaspis sinensis
Trilobita - Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Yuepingia cf. ocellata Lu and Lin 1980
Promacropyge flexa
Charchaqia norini Troedsson 1937
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Koldinioidia cf. typicalis Kobayashi 1931
Trilobita - Ptychopariida
Hospes ciliensis
Trilobita - Olenida - Eulomidae
Karataspis chinensis Peng 1992
Ketyna zhejiangensis Lu and Lin 1983
Archaeuloma taoyuanense (Peng 1992)
Agnostida
Leiagnostus cf. bexelli
Agnostida - Agnostidae
Micragnostus chiushuensis (Kobayashi 1931)
Conodonta - Amphigeisinidae
Prooneotodus tenuis (Muller 1959)
Conodonta - Proconodontida - Proconodontidae
Proconodontus muelleri (Miller 1969)
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Hunan County:Cili
Coordinates: 29.1° North, 111.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.7° North, 147.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Furongian
Stage: Stage 10 10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 5
Key time interval: Niuchehean Trilobite zone:  Leiagnostus cf. bexelli-Archaeuloma taoyuanense
Age range of interval: 489.5 - 485.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shenjiawan
Local section:Shenjiawan Local bed:61
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: sample 61 of bed 29, Cambrian stage 10
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: light gray thick-bedded compact limestone with intercalations of laminated limestone
Environment:slope
Geology comments: Jiangnan Slope Belt
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:107332
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-04-04 22:11:53 Last modified:2012-04-12 08:09:12
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-04-04 22:11:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35684. S. Peng and L. E. Babcock. 2001. Cambrian of the Hunan-Guizhou region, south China. Palaeoworld 13:3-51 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

41110 S. Peng. 1992. Upper Cambrian biostratigraphy and trilobite faunas of the Cili-Taoyuan area, northwestern Hunan, China. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 13:1-119 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]