Wangcun section, 0m (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (28.7° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° N, 154.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ptychagnostus gibbus trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Taijangian (509.0 - 504.5 Ma)

• bed 5 (-0.8-1.2 m)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments
• black, laminated, argillaceous, dolomitic packstone and thin-bedded packstone

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 49267: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.04.2005, edited by Uta Merkel

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Proasaphiscidae
Maotunia cf. semiplectra, Maotunia rectangularis, Sudanomocarina cf. changi
 Corynexochida - Corynexochidae
Corynexochina sinensis
Corynexochina sinensis Peng et al. 2004 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Peronopsidae
Peronopsis sp.
Peronopsis sp. Corda 1847