Wa'ergang, unit 17, NWF17 (Cambrian to of China)

Where: Hunan, China (29.1° N, 110.9° E: paleocoordinates 23.1° N, 151.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Huaqiao Formation, Wangcunian to Wangcunian (504.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• Sample NWF17 of unit 17. Fengmuping Formation after Lin 1991, lower Huaqiao Formation after revision of stratigraphic nomenclature of Peng and Babcock 2001. Lejopyge armata assemblage zone, probably equivalent to Lejopyge armata-Lejopyge laevigata zones

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt
• argillaceous limestone with limestone lenses

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: T. R. Lin. 1991. Middle Cambrian stratigraphy and trilobite fauna of Taoyuan, NW Hunan. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 30(3):360-376 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128926: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.06.2012

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Goniagnostus (Allobodochus) fumicola