Paibi 2 section, -1.6m (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (28.4° N, 109.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.2° N, 151.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Glyptagnostus reticulatus trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Paibian (497.0 - 494.0 Ma)

• Paibi 2 (=Paibi β) section, bed 57, Liostracina bella 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 57: dark, thin-bedded packstone, intercalated with light to medium gray, thin-bedded grainstone and a layer of medium gray limestone breccia (0.4 m thick)

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 107054: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida -
Glyptagnostus reticulatus
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Idolagnostus sp., "Agnostus inexpectans" = Innitagnostus inexpectans
Idolagnostus sp. Opik 1967
"Agnostus inexpectans" = Innitagnostus inexpectans Kobayashi 1938
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Peratagnostus obsoletus
Peratagnostus obsoletus Kobayashi 1935
Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
Olenus austriacus
Olenus austriacus Yang 1977 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Prochuangia licinispinata
Prochuangia licinispinata Peng 1992 trilobite