Paibi section, bed 19 (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 19: 180.3-186 m, Pianaspis sinensis polymerid trilobite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified packstone and lithified grainstone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments with sediment-gravity flows
• dark-gray, thin-bedded packstone, intercalated with dark-gray, thin-bedded, dolomitic packstone with 4 layers of medium gray, thin- to medium-bedded limestone breccia (single layer 0.15-0.4 cm thick, among which the layer at base is 0.4 m thick) in the lower part and 5 layers of light-gray, thin- to medium-bedded grainstone in the upper part

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 49170: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.04.2005, edited by Uta Merkel

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida -
Glaberagnostus bituberculatus
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Hypagnostus brevifrons
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
"Lejopyge laevigata" = Lejopyge laevigatus
"Lejopyge laevigata" = Lejopyge laevigatus Dalman 1828
 Agnostida - Clavagnostidae
Clavagnostus repandus
Clavagnostus repandus Westergard 1930
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Linguagnostus kjerulfi
Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
Lisania paibiensis
 Ptychopariida - Papyriaspididae
Pianaspis attenuata
Pianaspis attenuata Lermontova and Chernysheva 1950 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Huzhuia paratypica
Huzhuia paratypica Yang 1978 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Lisaniidae
"Baojingia latilimbata" = Eoshengia
"Baojingia latilimbata" = Eoshengia trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Dorypyge bisulcata
Dorypyge bisulcata Peng et al. 2004 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Fuchouia chiai
Fuchouia chiai Lu 1957 trilobite
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Parablackwelderia cf. huabeiensis