Wangcun section, 219.7m: Guzhangian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Lichida - Damesellidae
Parablackwelderia jimaensis (Yang 1974)
Paradamesella typica Yang 1977
? Drepanura crassispina Peng et al. 2004
Palaeadotes bella (Qiu 1983)
Palaeadotes hunanensis (Yang 1977)
Teinistion posterocostum (Yang 1977)
Trilobita - Mapaniidae
Pseudomapania cylindrica Yuan and Yin 1998
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Diceratocephalidae
Ajrikina hunanensis (Peng 1987)
Fenghuangella laochatianensis Yang 1977
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Catillicephalidae
Buttsia globosa Lu and Lin 1987
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Lonchocephalidae
Neoglaphyraspis nitida Yuan and Yin 1998
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Conokephalinidae
Lobocephalina sinensis
synonym of Conokephalina
Agnostida - Clavagnostidae
Aspidagnostus rugosus Palmer 1962
Peng and Robison 2000
Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
Proagnostus bulbus Butts 1926
Peng and Robison 2000
subsp. sinensis
Ammagnostus wangcunensis Peng and Robison 2000
Peng and Robison 2000
Ammagnostus hunanensis Peng and Robison 2000
Peng and Robison 2000
Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Tomagnostella sulcifera (Wallerius 1895)
Peng and Robison 2000
Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Nahannagnostus nganasanicus (Rozova 1964)
Peng and Robison 2000
Linguagnostus reconditus Poletaeva and Romanenko 1970
Peng and Robison 2000
Agnostida - Agnostidae
Kormagnostus minutus (Schrank 1975)
Peng and Robison 2000
Acmarhachis typicalis Resser 1938
Peng and Robison 2000
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Hunan
Coordinates: 28.7° North, 110.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.4° North, 150.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Furongian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 4
Key time interval:Guzhangian Trilobite zone: Linguagnostus reconditus
Age range of interval:500.50000 - 497.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Huaqiao
Local section:Wangcun Local bed:219.7 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: bed 31 (209-227m), Liostracina bella polymerid trilobite zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified argillaceous packstone
Secondary lithology: lithified grainstone
Lithology description: bed 31: dark-gray, thin-bedded, argillaceous packstone, interbedded with light to medium gray, thin-bedded grainstone
Environment:slope
Geology comments: Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments
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:126330
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-04-04 00:49:29 Last modified:2012-04-03 09:49:29
Access level:authorizer only Released:2015-04-04 00:49:29
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:

13139 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]