Yangliugang Hill II, bed 16 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Zhejiang, China (28.8° N, 118.6° E: paleocoordinates 17.6° N, 146.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Glyptagnostus reticulatus trilobite zone, Huayansi Formation, Paibian (497.0 - 494.0 Ma)

• samples GD23b, GD24, GD25

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone and lithified, calcareous shale

• outermost part of the Jiangnan Slope Belt, adjacent to the Jiangnan Basin
• blackish grey to dark grey medium-bedded limestones with pale grey calcareous shales

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: Y. H. Lu and H. L. Lin. 1989. The Cambrian trilobites of western Zhejiang. Palaeontologia Sinica, new series B 25:1-287 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125546: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.03.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Artiopoda
 Agnostida -
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus sp., "Pseudagnostus (Pseudagnostus) vigilax" = Pseudagnostus josephus
Pseudagnostus sp. Jaekel 1909
"Pseudagnostus (Pseudagnostus) vigilax" = Pseudagnostus josephus Hall 1863
 Agnostida - Clavagnostidae
"Aspidagnostus cf. stictus" = Aspidagnostus lunulosus
"Aspidagnostus cf. stictus" = Aspidagnostus lunulosus Kryskov 1963