Shenjiawan, unit 24, 53 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (29.1° N, 111.0° E: paleocoordinates 20.7° N, 147.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lotagnostus punctatus-Hedinaspis regalis trilobite zone, Shenjiawan Formation, Niuchehean (489.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• sample 53 of bed 24, stage 10 of Cambrian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt
• dark gray, thin-bedded laminated limestone with intercalated light gray, compact limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

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

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107329: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Kaolishaniidae
 Corynexochida - Tsinaniidae
Shergoldia australis n. sp. Peng 1992 trilobite
 Olenida - Pterocephaliidae
Cilia plectrifera Peng 1992 trilobite
 Harpetida - Harpetidae
Eotrinucleus antiquus n. sp. Peng 1992 trilobite
 Asaphida - Dikelocephalidae
Linguisaukia affinis Peng 1984 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
? Maryvillia sp. Walcott 1916 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Ivshinaspis crispa Petrunina 1973 trilobite
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Charchaqia norini Troedsson 1937 trilobite
Diceratopyge cf. mobergi Troedsson 1937 trilobite
Diceratopyge obesa Peng 1983 trilobite
Yuepingia minor Peng 1992 trilobite