Konggiri section, KG-7: Taoyuanian, South Korea

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Agnostida - Agnostidae
Homagnostus obesus (Belt 1867)
? Homagnostus sulcatus Choi et al. 2004
Pseudorhaptagnostus tumidus (Sun 1989)
Micragnostus elongatus (Chien 1961)
Kormagnostus inventus (Shergold 1982)
Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus securiger (Lake 1906)
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Chuangia sp. Walcott 1911
Choi et al. 2008
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Elviniidae
Irvingella convexa
Choi et al. 2008
Trilobita - Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Haniwoides longus Kobayashi 1935
Choi et al. 2008
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
Joshuaspis parvus Choi et al. 2008
Choi et al. 2008
Trilobita - Olenida - Aphelaspidae
Pseudeugonocare bispinatum (Kobayashi 1962)
Choi et al. 2008
Trilobita - Olenida - Pterocephaliidae
Metachangshania brachypyga Choi et al. 2008
Choi et al. 2008
see common names

Geography
Country:South Korea
Coordinates: 37.3° North, 128.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.6° North, 144.1° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cambrian
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 4-5
Key time interval: Taoyuanian Trilobite zone:  Eochuangia hana
Age range of interval: 494.9 - 485.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Yongwol Formation:Machari
Local section:Konggiri Local bed:7
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Lithology description: dark gray to black shale
Environment:deep subtidal indet.
Geology comments: shallow marine continental shelf
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:133449
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-09-13 18:35:12 Last modified:2012-09-13 03:35:12
Access level:authorizer only Released:2015-09-13 18:35:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
42993. D. K. Choi, J. G. Lee, and B. C. Sheen. 2004. Upper Cambrian agnostoid trilobites from the Machari Formation,Yongwol, Korea. Geobios 37:159-189 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

42994 D. K. Choi, E. Y. Kim, and J. G. Lee. 2008. Upper Cambrian polymerid trilobites from the Machari Formation, Yongwol, Korea. Geobios 41:183-204 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]