D2 - Daping section, sample level 2 (Ordovician of China)

Where: Hubei, China (30.9° N, 111.4° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 16.4° S, 89.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Azygograptus suecicus graptolite zone, 1B Member (Dawan Formation), Arenigian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; nodular, gray, green shale and limestone

• composed of greyish-green shale and intercalations of grey biocalcilutite , nodular biocalcilutite and biocalcarenite.

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 116198: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 06.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

• References focuses on trilobites.
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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Ovalocephalus primitivus
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Pseudocalymene transversa, Annamitella sp.
Pseudocalymene transversa Lu 1975 trilobite
Annamitella sp. Mansuy 1920 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Raphiophorinae indet.
Raphiophorinae indet. Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Liomegalaspides blackwelderi
Liomegalaspides blackwelderi Weller 1907 trilobite