D7 - Daping section, sample level 7 (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: Undulograptus austrodentatus graptolite zone, 3 Member (Dawan Formation), Arenigian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; gray, green, yellow, argillaceous, calcareous shale

• Dirty yellow-green or grey-green marly shale intercalated with marl , thin-bedded biocalcilutite and nodular biocalcilutite, with 3 metres of biocalcarenite at the top of the section

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 116203: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 06.09.2011, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

• References focuses on trilobites.
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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Geragnostus (Geragnosiella) lenhsiangensis, Geragnostus (Geragnostus) sp.
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Ovalocephalus primitivus
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Reedocalymeninae indet.
Reedocalymeninae indet. Hupe 1955 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Agerina elongata
Agerina elongata Lu 1975 trilobite
 Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
Aulacopleura (Paraulacopleura) dawanensis
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Ningkianolithus welleri, Hanchungolithus multiseriatus
Hanchungolithus multiseriatus trilobite
Hanchungolithinae indet.
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Raphiophorinae indet.
Raphiophorinae indet. Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Asaphida - Hungaiidae
Hungioides sp.
Hungioides sp. Kobayashi 1936 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Megalaspides laningensis