HUAIASPIS, A NEW CAMBRIAN TRILOBITE GENUS FROM NORTHERN ANHUI

A distinctive Cambrian trilobite collected from the lower part of Hsuchuang Formation at Laoyingshan, Caijiagang, near Huainan, northern Anhui Province is assigned as a new species belonging to a new genus classified under an undetermined family. The trilobite is named Huaiaspis huainanensis gen. et sp. nov. During Cambrian Period, the fossil locality lay on the southern margin of North China Platform. The material, on which the new taxon is based, includes 6 exoskeletons and more than 15 cranidia and pygidia, all preserved in reddish brown shale near the bottom of Hsuchuang Formation. The formation of the study area is probably of Hsuchuangian age as used in North and Northeast China.

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