Paibi 2 section, 5.1m (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (28.4° N, 109.5° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 12.8° S, 85.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Glyptagnostus reticulatus trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Paibian (497.0 - 494.2 Ma)

• Paibi 2 (=Paibi β) section, bed 58, Chuangia subrectangulata polymerid trilobite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified packstone and lithified grainstone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments with sediment-gravity flows
• bed 58: dark-gray, thin-bedded packstone and grainstone, interbedded with one layer of thick limestone breccia in upper part (1.9 m thick) and two layers of thick limestone breccia in lower part (0.8 and 1.2 m thick respectively)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126136: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Harpetida - Entomaspididae
Baikadamaspis paibiensis
 Lichida - Lichakephalidae
Paraacidaspis hunanica
Paraacidaspis hunanica Egorova 1960 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Diceratocephalidae
Fenghuangella liostracinala
 Ptychopariida - Lisaniidae
Shengia wannanensis
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Huzhuia curvata
Huzhuia curvata trilobite
 Asaphida - Anomocaridae
Paibianomocare lineatum n. sp.
Paibianomocare lineatum n. sp. Peng et al. 2004 trilobite