Paibi section, bed 13b (Cambrian of China)

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

• Paleocoordinates: 11.5° S, 83.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Goniagnostus nathorsti trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Wangcunian (504.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• upper bed 13: 123.6-126 m, Pianaspis sinensis polymerid trilobite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments
• dark-gray, thin-bedded packstone, interbedded with dark-gray, thin-bedded, argillaceous dolostone, intercalated with light-gray, medium-bedded grainstone

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 49163: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.04.2005, edited by Uta Merkel

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Dorypyge richthofeni Dames 1883 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Amphoton cf. typicum Kobayashi 1942 trilobite
Fuchouia chiai Lu 1957 trilobite
  -
 Olenida - Olenidae
Lisania paratungjenensis Yang 1978 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Changqingia laevis Peng et al. 1995 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Lisaniidae
"Baojingia tungrenensis" = Eoshengia
"Baojingia tungrenensis" = Eoshengia trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Papyriaspididae
Pianaspis sinensis Yang 1978 trilobite
 Asaphida - Rhyssometopidae
 Asaphida - Anomocarellidae
Paranomocarella fortis Peng et al. 1995 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
 Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Hypagnostus brevifrons Angelin 1851
Hypagnostus parvifrons Linnarsson 1869