Paibi section, bed 32 (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 32: 322-329 m, Liostracina bella polymerid trilobite zone, Youshuian, Upper Guzhangian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments with sediment-gravity flows
• dark-gray, thin-bedded packstone, intercalated with dark-gray, thin-bedded, laminated packstone and four layers of light-gray, thin-bedded, dolomitic grainstone, and a single layer of gray, thin-bedded limestone breccia (0.2 m thick)

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 49183: 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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unclassified
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Oculishumardia hunania
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Proceratopyge fuyangensis
Proceratopyge fuyangensis Lu and Lin 1987 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Wanshania wanshanensis
Wanshania wanshanensis Rong and Yang 1977 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Corynexochidae
Chatiania chatianensis
Chatiania chatianensis Yang 1977 trilobite
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Teinistion posterocostum, Protaitzehoia subquadrata, Palaeadotes hunanensis, Paradamesella typica
Teinistion posterocostum Yang 1977 trilobite
Protaitzehoia subquadrata Peng 1987 trilobite
Palaeadotes hunanensis Yang 1977 trilobite
Paradamesella typica Yang 1977 trilobite
 Olenida - Asaphiscidae
Luyanhaoaspis inflata, Luyanhaoaspis decorosa
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus koerferi