Wangcun section, 171.9m (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (28.7° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.4° N, 150.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Proagnostus bulbus trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• bed 28 (139.3-173.9m), Wanshania wanshanensis polymerid trilobite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified packstone and lithified grainstone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments
• bed 28: grayish black, thin-bedded, laminated packstone, intercalated frequently with light-gray, thin-bedded grainstone (thickness ranging between 4 and 10 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 126287: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.04.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
Torifera tuma
Torifera tuma Yang 1977 trilobite
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Prodamesella cf. biserrata
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Paradamesella peculiaris
Paradamesella peculiaris Zhou 1977 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Fuchouia oratolimba
Fuchouia oratolimba Yang 1977 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
Ammagnostus laiwuensis, Proagnostus bulbus
Proagnostus bulbus Butts 1926
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Goniagnostus spiniger, Lejopyge multifora
Goniagnostus spiniger Westergard 1931
Lejopyge multifora Opik 1979
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Hypagnostus parvifrons
Hypagnostus parvifrons Linnarsson 1869