Dama section, Fenghuang, bed 36a (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (28.1° N, 109.4° E: paleocoordinates 23.5° N, 149.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Agnostus inexpectans-Proceratopyge protracta trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Paibian (497.0 - 494.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• shallow water open marine; Jiangnan slope belt
• gray thick-bedded limestone breccia intercalated with granular limestone

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 124977: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.03.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Olenida - Aphelaspidae
Erixanium cf. sentum Opik 1963 trilobite
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
"Peratagnostus sinicus" = Peratagnostus obsoletus
"Peratagnostus sinicus" = Peratagnostus obsoletus Kobayashi 1935
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
"Pseudagnostus josepha" = Pseudagnostus josephus
"Pseudagnostus josepha" = Pseudagnostus josephus Hall 1863
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
"Geragnostus (Micragnostus) chiushuensis" = Micragnostus chiushuensis
"Geragnostus (Micragnostus) chiushuensis" = Micragnostus chiushuensis Kobayashi 1931