Paibi section, bed 10: Taijangian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Menocephalites hunanensis
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Proasaphiscidae
Grandioculus obscurus
Peng et al. 2004
Sudanomocarina traynorae
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Amphoton deois (Walcott 1905)
Peng et al. 2004
Fuchouia sixinensis Peng et al. 2004
Peng et al. 2004
Fuchouia kuruktagensis Zhang 1981
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Dorypyge richthofeni Dames 1883
Peng et al. 2004
Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Ptychagnostus gibbus (Linnarsson 1869)
recombined as Triplagnostus gibbus
Ptychagnostus cuyanus (Rusconi 1948)
Ptychagnostus atavus (Tullberg 1880)
Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Diplagnostus planicauda (Angelin 1851)
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Hunan
Coordinates: 28.4° North, 109.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.3° North, 154.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Miaolingian
Stage:Wuliuan 10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 3
Key time interval:Taijangian Trilobite zone: Ptychagnostus atavus
Age range of interval:509.00000 - 504.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Huaqiao
Local section:Paibi Local bed:10
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: bed 10: 47.1-74 m, Dorypyge richthofeni polymerid trilobite zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified argillaceous dolomite
Secondary lithology: lithified packstone
Lithology description: dark-gray, thin- to medium-bedded laminated, argillaceous dolostone, intercalated with dark-gray, thin-bedded packstone
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:49158
Authorizer:A. Hendy, W. Kiessling Enterer:A. Hendy, U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-04-10 11:24:04 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-04-10 11:24:04
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]