Paibi section, bed 17 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (28.4° N, 109.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.0° N, 150.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed 17: 161-171 m, Pianaspis sinensis polymerid trilobite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments
• dark-gray, thin-bedded packstone, intercalated with medium gray dolomitic limestone

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 49168: 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 - Spinagnostidae
 Agnostida - Phalacromidae
Lisogoragnostus hybus Peng and Robison 2000
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Goniagnostus spiniger Westergard 1931
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
 Agnostida - Clavagnostidae
Clavagnostus trispinus Zhou and Yang 1977
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Dorypyge bisulcata n. sp. Peng et al. 2004 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Fuchouia chiai Lu 1957 trilobite
 Olenida - Olenidae
 Asaphida - Rhyssometopidae
 Ptychopariida - Proasaphiscidae
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Huzhuia paratypica Yang 1978 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Papyriaspididae
Pianaspis attenuata Lermontova and Chernysheva 1950 trilobite