Weishan Hill, bed 3 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hebei, China (39.8° N, 118.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 141.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blackwelderia trilobite zone, Kushan Formation, Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• samples Tzwh3/Tzwh4 of bed 3 (17 m thick)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• inter-tidal barrier and restricted marine environment
• purplish grey thin-bedded limestone, intercalated with purplish grey thin-bedded edgewise limestone

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 129584: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Laiwugnathus kouzhenensis
Conodonta
 Paraconodontida -
Westergaardodina matsushitai, Westergaardodina moessebergensis, Prooneotodus sp.
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Diceratocephalidae
Cyclolorenzella uniforma n. sp., Cyclolorenzella parabola, Cyclolorenzella hebeiensis
Cyclolorenzella uniforma n. sp. Zhu and Wittke 1989 trilobite
Cyclolorenzella parabola Resser and Endo 1937 trilobite
Cyclolorenzella hebeiensis Zhu and Wittke 1989 trilobite
subsp. hebeiensis and tangshanensis
 Lichida - Damesellidae
"Damesella paronai" = Damesella blackwelderi, Damesops cf. convexus, Blackwelderia cf. chiawangensis, Blackwelderia paronai
"Damesella paronai" = Damesella blackwelderi Walcott 1905 trilobite
Damesops cf. convexus Chu 1959 trilobite
Blackwelderia paronai Airaghi 1902 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus "sp. 1"
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Quadrahomagnostus cf. tienshihfuensis