D3 - Daping section, sample level 3 (Ordovician of China)

Where: Hubei, China (30.9° N, 111.4° E: paleocoordinates 14.0° N, 139.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paroistodus originalis conodont zone, 2 Member (Dawan Formation), Arenigian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

• It belongs to the cephalopod Protocycloceras deprati Zone or the conodont Paroistodus originalis Zone (Lindst rÊm et al . , 1991

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; nodular, red lignite

• Chiefly purplish-red thin to medium-bedded biocalcilutite , intercalated with nodular biocalcilutite and biocalcarenite , 7. 6 met res thick.

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 116199: 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
Trinodus hupehensis
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Agerina elongata
Agerina elongata Lu 1975 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Yinpanolithus sp., Ningkianolithus welleri
Yinpanolithus sp. Lu and Chang 1974 trilobite
Ningkianolithus welleri trilobite
Hanchungolithinae indet.
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
"Megalaspides taningensis" = Liomegalaspides taningensis, Liomegalaspides blackwelderi
"Megalaspides taningensis" = Liomegalaspides taningensis Weller 1907 trilobite
Liomegalaspides blackwelderi Weller 1907 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus walcotti
Nileus walcotti Endo 1932 trilobite