connorp Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 I purchased this trilobite fossil a while back. It was sold as Yinites sp. from the Early Cambrian Hongjingshao formation in China. I tried to both verify the genus and close in a species, but have been unable to do so. All the references to Yinites that I could find were old (circa 1940’s), and therefore I wasn’t able to find any actual literature online. Does anyone have any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 Papers from the 6th International Conference on Trilobites and their Relatives might be useful, but it’s expensive. Wish I had a copy that I could check for you, but they cover the Hongjingshao species at some length. 1 Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 for comparison: Yinites typicalis - text fig. 4 from: Kobayashi, T. 1961 The Cambro-Ordovician Formations and faunas of South Korea, Part 8, Palaeontology 7. Cambrian Faunas of the Mun'gyong (Bunkei) District and the Samposan Formation of the Yongwol (Neietsu) District. Journal of Faculty of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Section II 13(2):181-241 Yinites typicalis - description & figs. 1a-1b from: Kaesler, R.L. (ed.) 1997 Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part O, Arthropoda 1, Trilobita, (revised). Geological Society of America, University of Kansas Press, 530 pp. Yinites yunnanensis - figs. 1-4 & text fig. 13 from: Zhang, W. 1966 On the classification of Redlichiacea, with descriptions of new families and new genera. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 14(2):135-184 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connorp Posted April 29, 2019 Author Share Posted April 29, 2019 Thanks @piranha. I just looked and my university library has a copy of the Kaesler text, I'll be picking it up tomorrow to take a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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