ammonites
Paibi section, bed 28a (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (28.4° N, 109.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.5° N, 151.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Proagnostus bulbus trilobite zone, Huaqiao Formation, Guzhangian (501.0 - 501.0 Ma)

• bed 28a (lower bed 28): 284.8-292.5 m, Wanshania wanshanensis polymerid trilobite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified packstone and lithified, argillaceous limestone

• Jiangnan Slope Belt, lower slope environments with sediment-gravity flows
• medium to dark-gray, thin-bedded packstone, intercalated with numerous dark-gray,

•thin-bedded, laminated argillaceous limestone beds, and two intercalated layers of gray, medium-bedded limestone breccia

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: 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] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49178: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.04.2005, edited by Uta Merkel

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