Weishan Hill, bed 5 (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)

• sample Tzwh6 of bed 5 (6 m thick)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• inter-tidal barrier and restricted marine environment
• purplish grey thin-bedded edgewise limestones interbedded with thin-bedded limestones

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 129586: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Paraconodontida -
Prooneotodus sp., Furnishina furnishi
Furnishina furnishi Muller 1959 conodont
Trilobita
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Blackwelderia paronai
Blackwelderia paronai Airaghi 1902 trilobite