Y6 - Yuandun section, sample level 6 (Ordovician of China)

Where: Shaanxi, China (33.1° N, 106.6° E: paleocoordinates 15.8° N, 144.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chaochiapa Formation, Arenigian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

• Approximately 16 m above base of section.

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, green, yellow shale and lithified, quartzose sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Turvey in 1998-1999

Primary reference: S. T. Turvey. 2005. Early Ordovician (Arenig) trilobite palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of the South China Plate. Palaeontology 48(3):519-547 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 116189: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 06.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

• References focuses on trilobites.
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Hanchungolithinae indet. Lu 1963 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Hexacopyge sp. Yuan and Zhou trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Ningkianites sp. Lu 1975 trilobite
Liomegalaspides sp. Lu and Chang 1974 trilobite