Paibi 2 section, 22.4m (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 60, Chuangia subrectangulata polymerid trilobite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified grainstone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments with sediment-gravity flows
• bed 60: medium gray, medium thick- to thick-bedded grainstone, intercalated with 3 layers of thick-bedded limestone breccia (single layer 0.6-1.1 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 126139: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida -
Glyptagnostus reticulatus
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
"Agnostus inexpectans" = Innitagnostus inexpectans
"Agnostus inexpectans" = Innitagnostus inexpectans Kobayashi 1938
Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
Olenus austriacus
Olenus austriacus Yang 1977 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Prochuangia granulosa, Chuangia austriaca
Prochuangia granulosa Lu 1956 trilobite
Chuangia austriaca Yang 1977 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Lisaniidae
Shengia wannanensis, Shengia sp., Shengia trapezia
Shengia sp. Xiang 1963 trilobite
Shengia trapezia Peng 1992 trilobite
 Harpetida - Entomaspididae
Baikadamaspis paibiensis