EDITORIAL PREFACE
CHAPTER 1 Introduction with reference to previous work, stratigraphical and geological settings, and biogeography Zhou Zhiyi and Zh
1.1 Trilobite research in China: a historical review
1.2 Notes on the chronostratigraphy of trilobite-bearing beds
1.3 Division of geographical units
1.4 Outline of Cambrian and Ordovician trilobite biogeography
CHAPTER 2 Cambrian agnostoids
2.1 List ofagnostoid genera (or subgenera) erected on Chinese material
2.2 Occurrences
CHAPTER 3 Early Cambrian (Chiungchussuan, Tsanglangpuan and Lungwangmia
3.1 A brief stratigraphic review
3.2 List of genera (or subgenera) erected on Chinese material
3.3 Occurrences
CHAPTER 4 Non-agnostoids of the early Mid Cambrian (Maochuangian and Hsuchuangian)
4.1 Zonation and correlation
4.2 List of genera (or subgenera) erected on Chinese material
4.3 Occurrences
CHAPTER 5 Non-agnostoids of Changhian (late Mid Cambrian)
5.1 Zonation and correlation
5.2 List of genera (or subgenera) erected based on Chinese material
5.3 Occurrences
CHAPTER 6 Platform-facies non-agnostoids of Late Cambrian (Kushanian,Changshanian and Fengshanian)
6.1 List of genera (or subgenera) erected on Chinese material
6.2 Occurrences
CHAPTER 7 Cambrian (late Taijiangian-Taoyuanian) slope-facies noti-agnostoids"
7.1 List ofpolymerid genera (or subgenera) erected on Chinese material
7.2 Occurrences
CHAPTER 8 Latest Cambrian and Ordovician
8.1 Notes on the stratigraphic framework
8.2 List of genera (or subgenera) erected on Chinese material
8.3 Age and occurrences
CHAPTER 9 SHurian
9.1 List of genera (or subgenera) erected on Chinese material
9.2 Occurrences
CHAPTER 10 Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian Yuan J
10.1 List of genera (or subgenera) erected on Chinese material
10.2 Occurences
CHAPTER 11 History of trilobite biodiversity: a Chinese perspective
11.1 Data and analytical methods
11.2 Origin
11.3 Diversity
11.4 Radiation events
11.5 Extinction events
11.6 Conclusions
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