Guole (Cambrian to of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (23.3° N, 106.1° E: paleocoordinates 27.7° N, 145.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Probinacunaspis nasalis - Peichiashania hunanensis trilobite zone, Sandu Formation, Taoyuanian to Taoyuanian (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• "Late Furongian" Jiangshanian. Was Taoyuanian to Niuchehean. Cambrian Stage 9.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified mudstone and lithified marl

• Brachiopods indicate that the Sandu Formation may represent a nearshore, shallow-water environment (Zhan et al. 2010).
• mudstones and marls.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: X. J. Zhu, N. C. Hughes, and S. C. Peng. 2007. On a new species of Shergoldia Zhang and Jell, 1987 (Trilobita), the family Tsinaniidae and the order Asaphida. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 34:243-253 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 129689: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.06.2012, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

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 Rhombifera -
Sanducystis sinensis n. gen. n. sp.1
Sanducystis sinensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Zamora et al. 2017
Edrioasteroidea
 Edrioblastoida -
Cambroblastus guolensis n. sp.2
Cambroblastus guolensis n. sp.2 Zhu et al. 2014
Stylophora
 Cornuta - Phyllocystidae
"Phyllocystis" jingxiensis2
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Tsinaniidae
Shergoldia laevigata n. sp.
Shergoldia laevigata n. sp. Zhu et al. 2007 trilobite
1Zamora et al. 2017; 2Zhu et al. 2014