Wangcun section, 288.95m (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (28.7° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.7° N, 151.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Glyptagnostus reticulatus trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Paibian (497.0 - 494.0 Ma)

• bed 34 (259-307m)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified packstone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments
• bed 34: dark-gray, thin-bedded packstone bearing small siliceous concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126445: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.04.2012

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida -
Glyptagnostus reticulatus