Weishan Hill, upper bed 15 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hebei, China (39.8° N, 118.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.3° S, 138.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kaolishania trilobite zone, Changshan Formation, Taoyuanian (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• samples Tzwh15/16 of bed 15 (9 m thick)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and lithified shale

• inter-tidal barrier and restricted marine environment
• purplish grey medium-bedded edgewise limestones intercalated with yellowish green shales

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: Z. L. Zhu and H. W. Wittke. 1989. Upper Cambrian trilobites from Tangshan, Hebei Province, North China. Palaeontologia Cathayana 4:199-259 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 129601: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Neoagnostus sp.
Neoagnostus sp. Kobayashi 1955
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Kaolishaniidae
Kaolishania pustulosa
Kaolishania pustulosa Sun 1924 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Shirakiellidae
Shirakiella elongata
Shirakiella elongata Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
 Ptychopariida -
Taishania (Weishania) constricta n. sp.