ammonites
Yangweizhou-Jimachong, Glyptagnostus stolidotus zone (Cambrian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (27.5° N, 109.2° E: paleocoordinates 25.3° N, 151.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Glyptagnostus stolidotus trilobite zone, Chefu Formation, Guzhangian (501.0 - 501.0 Ma)

• beds 21-23, upper Chefu Formation, Youshuian = Guzhangian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• grey to dark grey, thin-bedded argillaceous limestone, laminated limestone intercalated with grey to pale-grey, thick-bedded rudaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: J. L. Yuan and G. Z. Yin. 1998. New polymerid trilobites from the Chefu Formation in early Late Cambrian of eastern Guizhou. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 37(2):137-172 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125073: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.03.2012