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: Mictosaukia trilobite zone, Fengshan Formation, Niuchehean (489.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• sample Tzwh22 of bed 21 (5 m thick)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and lithified shale

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 129659: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.06.2012

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