Wangcun section, 210.5m (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: Linguagnostus reconditus trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• bed 31 (209-227m), Wanshania wanshanensis polymerid trilobite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, argillaceous packstone and lithified grainstone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments
• bed 31: dark-gray, thin-bedded, argillaceous packstone, interbedded 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 126323: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.04.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Parablackwelderia jimaensis Yang 1974 trilobite
Palaeadotes hunanensis Yang 1977 trilobite
Protaitzehoia subquadrata Peng 1987 trilobite
  - Mapaniidae
Pseudomapania cylindrica Yuan and Yin 1998 trilobite
  - Monkaspididae
Monkaspis quadrata Yang 1977 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
Torifera taoyuanensis Peng 1987 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Diceratocephalidae
Ajrikina hunanensis Peng 1987 trilobite
Fenghuangella laochatianensis Yang 1977 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Lonchocephalidae
Neoglaphyraspis nitida Yuan and Yin 1998 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Lisaniidae
"Baojingia subquadrata" = Eoshengia
"Baojingia subquadrata" = Eoshengia trilobite
 Asaphida - Anomocarellidae
Neoanomocarella asiatica Hsiang 1963 trilobite
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Proceratopyge fuyangensis Lu and Lin 1987 trilobite
  -
"Aethia rectangula" = Paleoaethia rectangula
"Aethia rectangula" = Paleoaethia rectangula Qian and Zhou 1984 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
Proagnostus bulbus Butts 1926
subsp. sinensis
Ammagnostus wangcunensis Peng and Robison 2000
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Tomagnostella sulcifera Wallerius 1895
Hypagnostus brevifrons Angelin 1851
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Linguagnostus reconditus Poletaeva and Romanenko 1970
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Kormagnostus minutus Schrank 1975
Acmarhachis typicalis Resser 1938
Hadragnostus modestus Lochman 1944