Wangcun section, 132.5m (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (28.7° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.4° N, 150.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lejopyge laevigata trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• bed 25 (132-132.9m), Pianaspis sinensis polymerid trilobite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified grainstone and lithified packstone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments
• bed 25: light-gray grainstone, interbedded with dark-gray, thin-bedded, laminated packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Peng and R. A. Robison. 2000. Agnostid biostratigraphy across the Middle-Upper Cambrian boundary in Hunan, China. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 53 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49295: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.04.2005, edited by Uta Merkel

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Clavagnostidae
Clavagnostus trispinus
Clavagnostus trispinus Zhou and Yang 1977
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Hypagnostus brevifrons
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Lejopyge armata
Lejopyge armata Linnarsson 1869
 Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
Ammagnostus laiwuensis
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Huzhuia paratypica
Huzhuia paratypica Yang 1978 trilobite
 Olenida - Olenidae
Lisania paibiensis
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Parablackwelderia laterilobata, Blackwelderia youshuica n. sp.
Parablackwelderia laterilobata Yang 1977 trilobite
Blackwelderia youshuica n. sp. Peng et al. 2004 trilobite
  - Burlingiidae
Schmalenseeia sinensis
Schmalenseeia sinensis Yang 1978 trilobite