Paibi section, bed 9: Taijangian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Huayuanaspis granulosa
Peng et al. 2004
Huayuanaspis perpauca
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Dorypyge richthofeni Dames 1883
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Amphoton deois (Walcott 1905)
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Crepicephalidae
? Crepicephalina sp. Resser and Endo 1935
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Asaphida - Anomocarellidae
Huayuania quadrilateralis
Peng et al. 2004
Paranomocarella parallela Yang 1977
Peng et al. 2004
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 - 504.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Huaqiao
Local section:Paibi Local bed:9
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: bed 9: 43.5-47.1 m, Dorypyge richthofeni polymerid trilobite zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:dolomitic lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lithified packstone
Lithology description: dark-gray, thin- to medium-bedded laminated, dolomitic limestone, 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
Museum repositories:NIGPAS
Metadata
Database number:49157
Authorizer:A. Hendy, W. Kiessling Enterer:A. Hendy, U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-04-10 11:21:31 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-04-10 11:21:31
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]