CAMBRIAN FAUNAS OF CHINA. 



By Charles D. Walcott, 



Curator, Division of tStr(ifiijr(ij)liic Fdlcoiddloi/i/. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The presence of Canilirian fo.ssils in China was first announced by 

 Baron Ilichthofen in 18S3/' 



The material crathered by him was studied l^y Dr. E. Kayser, to 

 whom the brachiopods were intrusted, and by Doctor Dames, who 

 described the trilobites. 



Doctor Kayser* described and named the following brachiopods: 



Orthis linnarssoni 

 Lingiilelld sp. 

 L. sp. 



Of the abov^e we have identified from the collections of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington Expedition to China (h-t/t/.^ [P/ectorf/ii.s] 

 lltDiarssoiu. 



Doctor Dames'" described and named the following trilobites: 



Agnostiis chinensis. Conocephalites quadriceps. 



Bori/pyge richthofeni. Conocephalites subquadratus. 



Anomocare Intilivibatum. Coiiocephalites tiipns. 



Anomomre niajus. Liostracus megalurns. 



Anomocare minus. Liostracus taliwjensis. 



Anomocare nanuni. ? Liostracus. 



Anomocare planum. ? Liostracus. 



Anomocare subcostatum. 2 P\'gi(lia, genus ami specieh^ undcter- 



Conocephalites frequens. mined. 



Of the above we have identitied from the collections of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington Expedition to China: 



Agnostus chinensis. Anomocare latilimbatum. 



Dorypyge richthofeni. Anomocare minus. 



Conocephalites IPtychoparia'] frequens. Ptychoparia {Liostracus) megalurus. 



« China, Richthofen, IV. &Ideni, pp. 34-36. cldeni, pp. 3-33. 



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