Paibi 2 section, -1.6m: Paibian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Prochuangia licinispinata Peng 1992
Trilobita - Olenida - Olenidae
Olenus austriacus Yang 1977
Agnostida
Glyptagnostus reticulatus (Angelin 1851)
Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Peratagnostus obsoletus (Kobayashi 1935)
Agnostida - Agnostidae
Agnostus inexpectans Kobayashi 1938
recombined as Innitagnostus inexpectans
Idolagnostus sp. Opik 1967
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:497.00000 - 494.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Huaqiao
Local section:Paibi 2 Local bed:-1.6 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:107054
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-03-31 21:52:56 Last modified:2012-03-30 06:28:25
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-03-31 21:52:56
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]