Wangcun section, 56.7m: Wangcunian, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Agnostida
- Ammagnostidae
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Ammagnostus laiwuensis
(Lorenz 1906)
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Agnostida
- Ptychagnostidae
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Ptychagnostus punctuosus
(Angelin 1851)
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Ptychagnostus cuyanus
(Rusconi 1948)
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Agnostida
- Spinagnostidae
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Tomagnostella exsculpta
(Angelin 1851)
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Doryagnostus incertus
(Brögger 1878)
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Agnostida
- Diplagnostidae
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? Baltagnostus ambonus
Peng and Robison 2000
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Agnostida
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? Glaberagnostus cicer
(Tullberg 1880)
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Trilobita
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Prodamesella tumidula
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Anomocarellidae
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Paranomocarella fortis
Peng et al. 1995
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Trilobita
- Ptychopariida
- Papyriaspididae
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Wangcunia wangcunensis
Peng et al. 1995
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Trilobita
- Ptychopariida
- Proasaphiscidae
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Szeaspis huananensis
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Dorypygidae
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Dorypyge richthofeni
Dames 1883
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Dolichometopidae
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Fuchouia kuruktagensis
Zhang 1981
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Leiostegiidae
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Geminiclavula wangcunica n. gen., n. sp.
Peng et al. 2004
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Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Hunan |
| Coordinates: | 28.7° North, 110.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.4° North, 152.5° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Miaolingian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 4 | ||
| Key time interval: | Wangcunian | Trilobite zone: | Ptychagnostus punctuosus |
| Age range of interval: | 504.5 - 497 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified packstone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified grainstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: bed 17: grayish black, medium- to thick-bedded, laminated packstone bearing limestone concretions, intercalated with few light-gray, thin-bedded grainstone beds, with a 15 cm thick layer of loosely cemented black shale appearing at 72.6 m, and a 10 cm thick grainstone bearing rich trilobites at 56.5 m | |
| 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: | 49274 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy, W. Kiessling | Enterer: | A. Hendy, U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-04-12 10:57:30 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2008-04-12 10:57:30 |
| 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] |