Guanzhuangping, sample LF (Ordovician of China)

Where: Hubei, China (30.0° N, 111.4° E: paleocoordinates 17.1° N, 142.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fenxiang Formation, Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• between 9.8 m and 15.1 m above the base, deltifer subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• gray, medium-bedded, sparsely bioclastic limestone alternating with oolitic calcilutite and intercalated with oolitic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: F. S. Xia, S. G. Zhang, and Z. Z. Wang. 2007. The oldest bryozoans: new evidence from the Late Tremadocian (Early Ordovician) of East Yangtze Gorges in China. Journal of Paleontology 81(6):1308-1326 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99796: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Prophyllodictya prisca n. sp. Xia et al. 2007
Conodonta
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Paltodus deltifer Lindström 1955 conodont
subsp. deltifer