Paibi 2 section, -1.72m: Paibian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Proceratopyge fenghwangensis Hsiang 1963
Agnostida
Glyptagnostus reticulatus (Angelin 1851)
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Hunan
Coordinates: 28.4° North, 109.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.2° North, 151.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Furongian
Stage: Paibian 10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 5
Key time interval: Paibian Trilobite zone:  Glyptagnostus reticulatus
Age range of interval: 497 - 494 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Huaqiao
Local section:Paibi 2 Local bed:-1.72 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Paibi 2 (=Paibi β) section, bed 57, Liostracina bella polymerid trilobite zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified packstone
Secondary lithology: lithified grainstone
Lithology description: bed 57: dark, thin-bedded packstone, intercalated with light to medium gray, thin-bedded grainstone and a layer of medium gray limestone breccia (0.4 m thick)
Environment:slope
Geology comments: Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments with sediment-gravity flows
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:107052
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-03-31 21:42:38 Last modified:2012-03-30 06:14:50
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-03-31 21:42:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
40918. S. Peng, L. E. Babcock, and H. Lin. 2004. Corynexochida, Lichida and Asaphida. Polymerid trilobites from the Cambrian of northwestern Hunan, China, Volume 1 1-333 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

35679 S. Peng, L. E. Babcock, and H. Lin. 2001. Illustrations of polymeroid trilobites from the Huaqiao Formation (Middle-Upper Cambrian), Paibi and Wangcun sections, northwestern Hunan, China. Palaeoworld 13:99-122 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]