Paibi section, bed 38b (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (28.4° N, 109.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.2° N, 151.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Glyptagnostus reticulatus trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Paibian (497.0 - 494.0 Ma)

• bed 38b: 371.42-372.62 m, Chuangia subquadrangulata 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 two layers of medium gray,

•thin-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 49194: 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 - Ceratopygidae
Proceratopyge fenghwangensis
Proceratopyge fenghwangensis Hsiang 1963 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
"Agnostus inexpectans" = Innitagnostus inexpectans
"Agnostus inexpectans" = Innitagnostus inexpectans Kobayashi 1938
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Peratagnostus obsoletus
Peratagnostus obsoletus Kobayashi 1935
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
"Pseudagnostus josepha" = Pseudagnostus josephus
"Pseudagnostus josepha" = Pseudagnostus josephus Hall 1863
 Agnostida -
Glyptagnostus reticulatus
Conodonta
 Paraconodontida -
Westergaardodina bicuspidata, Furnishina kranzae, Furnishina quadrata, Furnishina sp., Furnishina cf. quadrata, Furnishina furnishi
Westergaardodina bicuspidata Müller 1959 conodont
Furnishina sp. Müller 1959 conodont
Furnishina furnishi Muller 1959 conodont