Wangcun section, 95.8m (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (28.7° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.4° N, 152.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Goniagnostus nathorsti trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Wangcunian (504.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• bed 22 (90.5-118.6m), Pianaspis sinensis polymerid trilobite zone, Drumian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments
• bed 22: grayish black, medium- to thick-bedded, argillaceous packstone bearing limestone concretions, interbedded with numerous light-gray, thin-bedded grainstone beds

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 49286: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Pseudophalacroma ovale