Wangcun section, 151.6m (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (28.7° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.4° N, 150.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lejopyge laevigata trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• bed 28 (139.3-173.9m), Pianaspis sinensis polymerid trilobite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified packstone and lithified grainstone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments
• bed 28: grayish black, thin-bedded, laminated packstone, intercalated frequently with light-gray, thin-bedded grainstone (thickness ranging between 4 and 10 cm)

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 49299: 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
Lejopyge armata
Lejopyge armata Linnarsson 1869