Paibi section, bed 39 (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)

• bed 39: 378.2-381 m, Chuangia subquadrangulata 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
• medium-gray to dark-gray, thin-bedded packstone and grainstone containing small

•siliceous concretions (with diameters of 0.5-1.0 cm)

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 126130: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
"Proceratopyge truncata" = Proceratopyge truncatus Yang 1977 trilobite
Proceratopyge fenghwangensis Hsiang 1963 trilobite
 Asaphida - Anomocaridae
Afghanocare truncatum Peng 1987 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Lisaniidae
 Ptychopariida - Diceratocephalidae
Fenghuangella laochatianensis Yang 1977 trilobite
subsp. crassa
 Harpetida - Entomaspididae
 Olenida - Eulomidae
Stigmatoa yangziensis Yang 1978 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Prochuangia granulosa Lu 1956 trilobite
Prochuangia cf. leiocephala Peng et al. 1999 trilobite
Prochuangia licinispinata Peng 1992 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichakephalidae
Paraacidaspis hunanica Egorova 1960 trilobite
  - Llanoaspididae
"Placosema bigranulosum" = Genevievella
"Placosema bigranulosum" = Genevievella trilobite
  - Mapaniidae
Pseudomapania cylindrica Yuan and Yin 1998 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Peratagnostus obsoletus Kobayashi 1935
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
"Pseudagnostus josepha" = Pseudagnostus josephus
"Pseudagnostus josepha" = Pseudagnostus josephus Hall 1863
 Agnostida -