Luoyixi section, 125.1m (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (28.7° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.5° N, 150.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lejopyge laevigata trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone and lithified, argillaceous limestone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments
• dark, thin-bedded, thinly laminated lime mudstones, argillaceous limestones, and fossiliferous limestone lenses; light-colored ribbon limestones are present in places

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: S. C. Peng, L. E. Babcock, J. X. Zuo, H. L. Lin, X. J. Zhu, X. F. Yang, R. A. Robison, Y. P. Qi, G. Bagnoli and Y. Chen. 2009. The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Guzhangian Stage (Cambrian) in the Wuling Mountains, northwestern Hunan, China. Episodes 32(1):41-55 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128348: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Goniagnostus nathorsti