Where: Hunan, China (29.1° N, 110.9° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 14.2° S, 85.3° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Corynexochus plumula-Sinoproceratopyge cf. kiangshanensis zone, Huaqiao Formation, Paibian (497.0 - 494.0 Ma)
• Sample 18 of unit 12. Peng 1992 included the bed in the Bitiao Formation, but following revision of stratigraphic nomenclature (Peng & Robison, 2000), the Huaqiao, Chefu, and Bitiao formations have been grouped into a single unit, the Huaqiao Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 126656: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.04.2012
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Artiopoda | |
"Peratagnostus sinicus" = Peratagnostus obsoletus
"Peratagnostus sinicus" = Peratagnostus obsoletus Kobayashi 1935 | |
Trilobita | |
Corynexochus plumula Whitehouse 1939 trilobite | |
Proceratopyge sp., "Proceratopyge cf. truncata" = Proceratopyge truncatus, Proceratopyge (Sinoproceratopyge) cf. kiangshanensis, Proceratopyge waergangensis n. sp.
Proceratopyge sp. Wallerius 1895 trilobite
"Proceratopyge cf. truncata" = Proceratopyge truncatus Yang 1977 trilobite
Proceratopyge (Sinoproceratopyge) cf. kiangshanensis Lu 1964 trilobite
Proceratopyge waergangensis n. sp. Peng 1992 trilobite |