Wangcun section, 189m (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 29 (173.9-191m), Wanshania wanshanensis polymerid trilobite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified packstone and lithified grainstone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments
• bed 29: dark-gray, thin- to medium-bedded, laminated packstone, intercalated with light- to medium-gray, thin-bedded, striped grainstone

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 126306: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.04.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Lisaniidae
"Baojingia quadrata" = Eoshengia
"Baojingia quadrata" = Eoshengia trilobite
 Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
Torifera tuma
Torifera tuma Yang 1977 trilobite
 Asaphida - Anomocarellidae
Neoanomocarella incilis
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Paradamesella peculiaris, Parablackwelderia jimaensis, Palaeadotes hunanensis
Paradamesella peculiaris Zhou 1977 trilobite
Parablackwelderia jimaensis Yang 1974 trilobite
Palaeadotes hunanensis Yang 1977 trilobite