Wangcun section, 70.2m: Wangcunian, China

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Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Ptychagnostus leptus Qian 1983
see common names

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
Formation:Huaqiao
Local section:Wangcun Local bed:70.2 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: bed 17 (52.1-72.6m), Dorypyge richthofeni polymerid trilobite zone, Lower Wangcunian, Middle Drumian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified packstone
Secondary lithology: lithified grainstone
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:49280
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-04-12 11:13:28 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-04-12 11:13:28
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]