Collection 9(14-15) (Cambrian of China)

Where: Jilin Provence, China (42.1° N, 126.7° E: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 139.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cordylodus proavus conodont zone, Niuchehean (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Trilobites and Conodonts only, Collected in the Xiaoyangqiao lower section, collection 9(14-15), 19m from the base of the formation

Primary reference: J.-W. Chen, Y.-Y. Qian, J.-M. Zhang, Y.-K. Lin, L.-M. Yin, Z.-H. Wang, Z.-Z. Wang, J.-D. Yang, and Y.-X. Wang. 1988. The recommended Cambrian - Ordovician global Boundry stratotype of the Xiaoyangqiao section (Dayangcha, Jilin Province), China. In W. B. Harland, C. P. Hughes, R. S. J. Sparks, N. H. Woodcock, I. N. McCave (eds.), Geological Magazine 125(4):415-444 [M. Hopkins/S. Mahmood/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156916: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 02.06.2014

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
"Akoldinioidia convexalimbata" = Koldinioidia
"Akoldinioidia convexalimbata" = Koldinioidia trilobite
Conodonta
 Paraconodontida -
 Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
Eoconodontus notchpeakensis Miller 1969 conodont
Cordylodus proavus Müller 1959 conodont
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"Stenodontus jilinensis" = Diaphanodus
"Stenodontus jilinensis" = Diaphanodus conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Oneotodontidae