Z3 - Zhaojiaba sample level 3 (Ordovician of China)

Where: Shaanxi, China (32.9° N, 106.3° E: paleocoordinates 16.4° N, 143.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Siliangssu Formation, Arenigian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

• Approximately 76 m above base of section.

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, gray, silty shale and lithified, silty mudstone

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 116181: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 06.09.2011, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• References focuses on trilobites.
Trilobita
 Proetida - Telephinidae
Carolinites genacinaca Ross 1951 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Hanchungolithus multiseriatus trilobite
Hanchungolithinae indet.
 Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Reedocalymeninae indet. Hupe 1955 trilobite
Neseuretus planus
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"Neseuretus planus" = Aristocalymene planus
"Neseuretus planus" = Aristocalymene planus Lu 1975