Shiniulan Formation Songkanoceras assemblage (Silurian of China)

Where: China (28.0° N, 106.0° E: paleocoordinates 9.5° N, 126.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Shiniulan Formation, Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• "middle Early Silurian Shiniulan Formation and its equivalent Xiangshuyuan Formation" Aeronian based on age of Shiniulan Formation in PBDB collection 61428

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified carbonate and lithified shale

• Lithology based on that of Shiniulan Formation in PBDB collection 61428

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Y. Chen, G. W. Liu, and T. E. Chen. 1981. Silurian nautiloid faunas of central and southwestern China. Memoirs of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology 13:1-104 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228657: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 22.12.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Oncocerida - Nothoceratidae
Mixosiphonocerina sp. n. gen. Chen et al. 1981
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Cyrtactinoceratidae
Armenocerina sp. n. gen. Chen et al. 1981
 Orthocerida - Songkanocerasidae
Songkanoceras sp. n. gen. Chen et al. 1981
 Orthocerida - Eriditidae
Malgaoceras sp. Miagkova 1967
 Actinocerida - Armenoceratidae
Armenoceras sp. Foerste 1924