Paibi section, bed 11 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (28.4° N, 109.5° E: paleocoordinates 26.3° N, 154.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ptychagnostus atavus trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Taijangian (509.0 - 504.5 Ma)

• bed 11: 74-93 m, Dorypyge richthofeni polymerid trilobite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments
• dark-gray, thin- to medium-bedded laminated, argillaceous, dolomitic limestone, interbedded with dark-gray, thin-bedded packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Peng and R. A. Robison. 2000. Agnostid biostratigraphy across the Middle-Upper Cambrian boundary in Hunan, China. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 53 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49159: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.04.2005, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Ptychagnostus cuyanus Rusconi 1948
Ptychagnostus atavus Tullberg 1880
 Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
? Baltagnostus ambonus Peng and Robison 2000
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Hypagnostus parvifrons Linnarsson 1869
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Dorypyge richthofeni Dames 1883 trilobite
Dorypyge huaqiaoensis n. sp. Peng et al. 2004 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Fuchouia sixinensis n. sp. Peng et al. 2004 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Changqingia intermedia Walcott 1906 trilobite
 Asaphida - Anomocarellidae
Fissanomocarella paibiensis Peng et al. 1995 trilobite
Paranomocarella sp. Yang 1977 trilobite
Paranomocarella fortis Peng et al. 1995 trilobite