Chejia Hill, Tangcun, unit 6 (Cambrian to of China)

Where: Anhui, China (30.6° N, 118.2° E: paleocoordinates 14.7° N, 144.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tangcun Formation, Taoyuanian to Taoyuanian (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• unit 6 (6.60 m thick), sample WT14A, WT14B, Jingxiania assemblage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy mudstone and lithified limestone

• dark purple, grey thin-bedded mudstone and sandy mudstone in the upper part; purplish thin-bedded sandy mudstone intercalated with dark grey limestone in the lower part

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: Y. Qian. 1985. Late Late Cambrian trilobites from the Tangcun Formation of Jingxian, southern Anhui. Palaeontologia Cathayana 2:137-167 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127532: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.05.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
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Peculicephalina jingxianensis n. gen. n. sp.
Peculicephalina jingxianensis n. gen. n. sp. Qian 1985 trilobite
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
"Yuepingia sp." = Haniwoides
"Yuepingia sp." = Haniwoides Kobayashi 1953 trilobite
 Asaphida - Dikelocephalidae
Prosaukia diversa, Calvinella tangcunensis, Calvinella lira n. sp., Saukia jingxianensis, Saukia crassa
Prosaukia diversa Chien 1974 trilobite
Calvinella lira n. sp. Qian 1985 trilobite
Saukia jingxianensis Chien 1974 trilobite
Saukia crassa Qian 1985 trilobite
 Olenida - Dokimokephalidae
Jingxiania transversa, Jingxiania beigongliensis, Jingxiania tangcunensis, Jingxiania zhuangliensis
Jingxiania transversa Chien 1974 trilobite
Jingxiania beigongliensis Chien 1974 trilobite
Jingxiania tangcunensis Chien 1974 trilobite
Jingxiania zhuangliensis Chien 1974 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Missisquoiidae
Parakoldinioidia callosa n. sp.
Parakoldinioidia callosa n. sp. Qian 1985 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus anhuiensis
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Homagnostus zhuangliensis n. sp.
Homagnostus zhuangliensis n. sp. Qian 1985