Wangcun section, 170m: Guzhangian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Goniagnostus spiniger (Westergard 1931)
Agnostida - Clavagnostidae
Clavagnostus repandus (Westergard 1930)
Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Hypagnostus parvifrons (Linnarsson 1869)
Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Linguagnostus kjerulfi (Brogger 1878)
Oidalagnostus changi Lu 1964
Trilobita - Lichida - Damesellidae
Palaeadotes hunanensis (Yang 1977)
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Wanshania wanshanensis Rong and Yang 1977
Peng et al. 2004
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:Miaolingian
Stage:Guzhangian 10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 4
Key time interval:Guzhangian Trilobite zone: Lejopyge laevigata
Age range of interval:500.50000 - 497.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Huaqiao
Local section:Wangcun Local bed:170 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: bed 28 (139.3-173.9m), Wanshania wanshanensis polymerid trilobite zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified packstone
Secondary lithology: lithified grainstone
Lithology description: bed 28: grayish black, thin-bedded, laminated packstone, intercalated frequently with light-gray, thin-bedded grainstone (thickness ranging between 4 and 10 cm)
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:49303
Authorizer:A. Hendy, W. Kiessling Enterer:A. Hendy, U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-04-12 13:42:35 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-04-12 13:42:35
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:

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]