Paibi section, bed 12: Wangcunian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Amphoton cf. typicum (Kobayashi 1942)
Peng et al. 2004
Amphoton alceste (Walcott 1905)
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Tsinaniidae
Zhujia hunanensis Peng et al. 1995
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Dorypyge richthofeni Dames 1883
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita
Prodamesella tumidula
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Asaphida - Rhyssometopidae
Qiandongaspis sinensis
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Asaphida - Anomocarellidae
Paranomocarella fortis Peng et al. 1995
Peng et al. 2004
Agnostida - Clavagnostidae
Utagnostus songae Peng and Robison 2000
Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
Ammagnostus laiwuensis (Lorenz 1906)
Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Ptychagnostus leptus Qian 1983
recombined as Acidusus leptus
Ptychagnostus cuyanus (Rusconi 1948)
Ptychagnostus atavus (Tullberg 1880)
Ptychagnostus punctuosus (Angelin 1851)
Pseudophalacroma ovale (Yang 1982)
Pseudophalacroma dubium (Whitehouse 1936)
Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Hypagnostus parvifrons (Linnarsson 1869)
Hypagnostus brevifrons (Angelin 1851)
Tomagnostella exsculpta (Angelin 1851)
Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Diplagnostus planicauda (Angelin 1851)
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Hunan
Coordinates: 28.4° North, 109.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.9° North, 152.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Miaolingian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 4
Key time interval:Wangcunian Trilobite zone: Ptychagnostus punctuosus
Age range of interval:504.50000 - 497.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Huaqiao
Local section:Paibi Local bed:12
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: bed 12: 93-110 m, Dorypyge richthofeni polymerid trilobite zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:dolomitic lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lithified packstone
Lithology description: upper part: dark-gray, thin- to medium-bedded, laminated, dolomitic limestone, intercalated with dark-gray, thin-bedded packstone bearing limestone concretions; lower part: dark-gray, thin-bedded packstone, interbedded with dark-gray, thin- to medium-bedded, argillaceous dolostone
Environment:slope
Geology comments: Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:49161
Authorizer:A. Hendy, W. Kiessling Enterer:A. Hendy, U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-04-10 12:13:43 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-04-10 12:13:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13139. 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]

Secondary references:

35679 S. Peng, L. E. Babcock, and H. Lin. 2001. Illustrations of polymeroid trilobites from the Huaqiao Formation (Middle-Upper Cambrian), Paibi and Wangcun sections, northwestern Hunan, China. Palaeoworld 13:99-122 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]
40918 S. Peng, L. E. Babcock, and H. Lin. 2004. Corynexochida, Lichida and Asaphida. Polymerid trilobites from the Cambrian of northwestern Hunan, China, Volume 1 1-333 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Uhen]