Wangcun section, 33m: Taijangian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Dorypyge richthofeni Dames 1883
Peng et al. 2004
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Proasaphiscidae
Sudanomocarina cf. changi
Peng et al. 2004
Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Hypagnostus parvifrons (Linnarsson 1869)
Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Ptychagnostus atavus (Tullberg 1880)
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Hunan
Coordinates: 28.7° North, 110.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.8° 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:Wangcun Local bed:33 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: bed 9 (33-36.4m), Dorypyge richthofeni polymerid trilobite zone, Upper Taijiangian, Lower Drumian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified grainstone
Secondary lithology: lithified packstone
Lithology description: bed 9: dark-gray, thin-bedded grainstone with few laminations, intercalated with dark-gray, thin-bedded, laminated 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:49270
Authorizer:A. Hendy, W. Kiessling Enterer:A. Hendy, U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-04-12 10:36:10 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-04-12 10:36:10
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]