Paibi section, bed 29 (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: Linguagnostus reconditus trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• bed 29: 293.5-298.1 m, Wanshania wanshanensis polymerid trilobite zone, Youshuian, Upper Guzhangian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments with sediment-gravity flows
• dark-gray, thin- to medium-bedded, laminated, dolomitic packstone bearing limestone concretions, intercalated with three layers of 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 49180: 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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Trilobita
 Asaphida - Anomocaridae
Paracoosia cf. kingi
Paracoosia cf. kingi Wittke 1984 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Wanshania wanshanensis
Wanshania wanshanensis Rong and Yang 1977 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Corynexochidae
Chatiania convexa
Chatiania convexa Peng et al. 2004 trilobite
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Parablackwelderia jimaensis, Palaeadotes hunanensis
Parablackwelderia jimaensis Yang 1974 trilobite
Palaeadotes hunanensis Yang 1977 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Hypagnostus parvifrons
Hypagnostus parvifrons Linnarsson 1869