Paibi section, bed 28b: Guzhangian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Wanshania wanshanensis Rong and Yang 1977
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Lichida - Damesellidae
Palaeadotes hunanensis (Yang 1977)
Peng et al. 2004
Parablackwelderia jimaensis (Yang 1974)
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Diceratocephalidae
Fenghuangella coniforma
Peng et al. 2004
Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Goniagnostus fumicola Opik 1961
Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Linguagnostus reconditus Poletaeva and Romanenko 1970
Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
Proagnostus bulbus Butts 1926
Agnostida - Agnostidae
Kormagnostus minutus (Schrank 1975)
Hadragnostus modestus (Lochman 1944)
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Hunan
Coordinates: 28.4° North, 109.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.0° North, 150.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Miaolingian
Stage:Guzhangian 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:Paibi Local bed:28b
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: bed 28b (upper bed 28): 293-293.5 m, Wanshania wanshanensis polymerid trilobite zone, Youshuian, Upper Guzhangian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified packstone
Secondary lithology: lithified argillaceous "limestone"
Lithology description: medium to dark-gray, thin-bedded packstone, intercalated with numerous dark-gray, thin-bedded, laminated argillaceous limestone beds, and two intercalated layers of gray, medium-bedded limestone breccia
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:49179
Authorizer:A. Hendy, W. Kiessling Enterer:A. Hendy, U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-04-10 19:46:29 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-04-10 19:46:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]

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]
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]