Shenjiawan, unit 33, 64: Niuchehean, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Agnostida
Leiagnostus cf. bexelli
Agnostida - Agnostidae
Micragnostus chiushuensis (Kobayashi 1931)
Neoagnostus bilobus (Shaw 1951)
Trilobita - Olenida - Eulomidae
Proteuloma peresum
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Leiostegium constrictum
Leiostegium planum
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Cheilocephalidae
Parakoldinia tholimorpha Peng 1992
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Acrocephalina cf. acuta Troedsson 1937
Trilobita - Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Macropyge angusta
Hunanopyge sejuncta Peng 1984
Diceratopyge elongata Peng 1983
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Niobella bella
Trilobita - Asaphida - Nileidae
Troedssonia wimani (Troedsson 1937)
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:  Leiostegium constrictum-Shenjiawania brevica
Age range of interval: 489.5 - 485.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shenjiawan
Local section:Shenjiawan Local bed:64
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: sample 64 of bed 33, Cambrian stage 10
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: gray medium- to thin-bedded limestone in the lower part, dark-gray thick-bedded limestone in the upper part
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:107335
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-04-04 22:52:20 Last modified:2012-04-12 09:26:59
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-04-04 22:52:20
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]