Where: Nei Mongol, China (40.7° N, 110.0° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 13.2° N, 113.8° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Ludlow to Ludlow (427.4 - 419.2 Ma)
• "The age is uncertain, but somwhere in the range of Late Ludlovian to Late Pridolian is reasonable."
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, calcareous mudstone
Collection methods: Table 14 (which includes specimen counts).
Primary reference: Y. Wang, A. J. Boucot, J.Y. Rong and X.C. Yang. 1987. Community paleoecology as a geologic tool: the Chinese Ashgillian-Eifelian (latest Ordovician through early Middle Devonian) as an example. Geological Society of America Special Paper 211:1-100 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 25819: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 25.09.2002
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Strophomenata | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Schizophoria sp. King 1850 | |
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913 | |
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946 | |
"Protathyrisina sp." = Retziella
"Protathyrisina sp." = Retziella Nikiforova 1937 | |
Gypidula sp. Hall 1867 | |
Atrypoidea sp. Mitchell and Dun 1920 | |
Stegerhynchus sp. Foerste 1909 | |
Lingulata | |
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Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite |