Wangcun section, 207.5m (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 126322: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.04.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Palaeadotes hunanensis
Palaeadotes hunanensis Yang 1977 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Catillicephalidae
Paradistazeris hubeiensis
Paradistazeris hubeiensis Zhang et al. 1980 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Wanshania wanshanensis
Wanshania wanshanensis Rong and Yang 1977 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Hypagnostus brevifrons
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Oidalagnostus trispinifer
Oidalagnostus trispinifer Westergard 1946
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Hadragnostus modestus, Kormagnostus minutus
Hadragnostus modestus Lochman 1944
Kormagnostus minutus Schrank 1975
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Goniagnostus fumicola