Wa'ergang, unit 20, 27: Taoyuanian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
Skljarella cf. hunanensis (Peng 1984)
rare category
Agnostida - Agnostidae
Neoagnostus cf. acutifrons (Troedsson 1937)
rare category
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Hunan
Coordinates: 29.1° North, 110.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.7° North, 147.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cambrian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 4-5
Key time interval:Taoyuanian Zone: Probilacunaspis nasalis-Peichiashania hunanensis
Age range of interval:494.90000 - 485.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shenjiawan
Local section:Wa'ergang Local bed:27
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: sample 27 of middle unit 20
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: argillaceous, laminated limestone
Environment:slope
Geology comments: Jiangnan Slope Belt
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:126670
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-04-11 18:36:28 Last modified:2012-04-11 03:36:28
Access level:authorizer only Released:2015-04-11 18:36:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
41110. S. Peng. 1992. Upper Cambrian biostratigraphy and trilobite faunas of the Cili-Taoyuan area, northwestern Hunan, China. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 13:1-119 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]