Wangcun section, 219.7m (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), Liostracina bella 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 126330: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.04.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Clavagnostidae
Aspidagnostus rugosus
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Linguagnostus reconditus, Nahannagnostus nganasanicus
Linguagnostus reconditus Poletaeva and Romanenko 1970
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Acmarhachis typicalis, Kormagnostus minutus
Kormagnostus minutus Schrank 1975
 Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
Ammagnostus hunanensis, Ammagnostus wangcunensis, Proagnostus bulbus
Ammagnostus hunanensis Peng and Robison 2000
Ammagnostus wangcunensis Peng and Robison 2000
Proagnostus bulbus Butts 1926
subsp. sinensis
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Tomagnostella sulcifera
Tomagnostella sulcifera Wallerius 1895
Trilobita
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Paradamesella typica, Parablackwelderia jimaensis, ? Drepanura crassispina, Teinistion posterocostum, Palaeadotes bella, Palaeadotes hunanensis
Paradamesella typica Yang 1977 trilobite
Parablackwelderia jimaensis Yang 1974 trilobite
? Drepanura crassispina Peng et al. 2004 trilobite
Teinistion posterocostum Yang 1977 trilobite
Palaeadotes bella Qiu 1983 trilobite
Palaeadotes hunanensis Yang 1977 trilobite
  - Mapaniidae
Pseudomapania cylindrica
Pseudomapania cylindrica Yuan and Yin 1998 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Lonchocephalidae
Neoglaphyraspis nitida
Neoglaphyraspis nitida Yuan and Yin 1998 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Catillicephalidae
Buttsia globosa
Buttsia globosa Lu and Lin 1987 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Conokephalinidae
"Lobocephalina sinensis" = Conokephalina
"Lobocephalina sinensis" = Conokephalina trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Diceratocephalidae
Ajrikina hunanensis, Fenghuangella laochatianensis
Ajrikina hunanensis Peng 1987 trilobite
Fenghuangella laochatianensis Yang 1977 trilobite