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), Wanshania wanshanensis polymerid trilobite zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified packstone and lithified 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 49303: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.04.2005, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Palaeadotes hunanensis Yang 1977 trilobite | |
Wanshania wanshanensis Rong and Yang 1977 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
Hypagnostus parvifrons Linnarsson 1869 | |
Clavagnostus repandus Westergard 1930 | |
Linguagnostus kjerulfi Brogger 1878
Oidalagnostus changi Lu 1964 | |
Goniagnostus spiniger Westergard 1931 |