Paibi section, bed 13b: Wangcunian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
? Huayuanaspis sp.
Peng et al. 2004
Qiandongensis xiangxiensis
Peng et al. 2004
Parapianaspis hunanensis
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Fuchouia chiai Lu 1957
Peng et al. 2004
Amphoton cf. typicum (Kobayashi 1942)
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Dorypyge richthofeni Dames 1883
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita
Prodamesella tumidula
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Lisaniidae
Baojingia tungrenensis
Peng et al. 2004
synonym of Eoshengia
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Changqingia laevis Peng et al. 1995
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Papyriaspididae
Pianaspis sinensis (Yang 1978)
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Asaphida - Rhyssometopidae
Qiandongaspis convexa
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Asaphida - Anomocarellidae
Paranomocarella fortis Peng et al. 1995
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Olenida - Olenidae
Lisania paratungjenensis Yang 1978
Peng et al. 2004
Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
Ammagnostus laiwuensis (Lorenz 1906)
Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Goniagnostus nathorsti (Brogger 1878)
Pseudophalacroma ovale (Yang 1982)
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: Goniagnostus nathorsti
Age range of interval:504.50000 - 497.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Huaqiao
Local section:Paibi Local bed:13b
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: upper bed 13: 123.6-126 m, Pianaspis sinensis polymerid trilobite zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified packstone
Secondary lithology: lithified argillaceous dolomite
Lithology description: dark-gray, thin-bedded packstone, interbedded with dark-gray, thin-bedded, argillaceous dolostone, intercalated with light-gray, medium-bedded grainstone
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:49163
Authorizer:A. Hendy, W. Kiessling Enterer:A. Hendy, U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-04-10 12:24:08 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-04-10 12:24:08
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]