Wangcun section, 199.2m (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 30 (191-209m), Wanshania wanshanensis polymerid trilobite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified packstone and lithified grainstone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments
• bed 30: dark-gray, medium- to thick-bedded (thickness of 0.5-1 m in single bed), laminated packstone, intercalated with light to medium gray, thin-bedded 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 126317: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.04.2012

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
 Asaphida - Anomocarellidae
Neoanomocarella asiatica Hsiang 1963 trilobite
 Asaphida - Anomocaridae
Paracoosia cf. kingi Wittke 1984 trilobite
 Asaphida - Rhyssometopidae
 Ptychopariida - Catillicephalidae
Paradistazeris hubeiensis Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Lisaniidae
"Baojingia subquadrata" = Eoshengia
"Baojingia subquadrata" = Eoshengia trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Lonchocephalidae
Neoglaphyraspis nitida Yuan and Yin 1998 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Diceratocephalidae
Ajrikina wannanensis Qiu 1983 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
Torifera taoyuanensis Peng 1987 trilobite
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Palaeadotes hunanensis Yang 1977 trilobite
Parablackwelderia jimaensis Yang 1974 trilobite
Paradamesella peculiaris Zhou 1977 trilobite
Protaitzehoia subquadrata Peng 1987 trilobite
  - Mapaniidae
Pseudomapania cylindrica Yuan and Yin 1998 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Hadragnostus modestus Lochman 1944
Kormagnostus minutus Schrank 1975
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
 Agnostida -
Glaberagnostus altaicus Romanenko 1985
 Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
Proagnostus bulbus Butts 1926
 Agnostida -