Dama section, Fenghuang, bed 35 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (28.1° N, 109.4° E: paleocoordinates 22.1° N, 146.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Agnostus inexpectans-Proceratopyge protracta trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Furongian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• Paibian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• shallow water open marine; Jiangnan slope belt
• argillaceous limestone and limestone breccia

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: Y. Duan. 2004. New polymerid trilobites and the first record of Erixanium from Upper Cambrian in western Hunan, China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 43(1):63-71 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124948: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.03.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Neoagnostus cf. occultatus Xiang and Zhang 1985
Homagnostus sp. Howell 1935
"Agnostus inexpectans" = Innitagnostus inexpectans Kobayashi 1938
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
"Peratagnostus sinicus" = Peratagnostus obsoletus
"Peratagnostus sinicus" = Peratagnostus obsoletus Kobayashi 1935
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Proceratopyge truncatus Yang 1977 trilobite
Proceratopyge protracta Peng 1992 trilobite