D4 - Daping section, sample level 4 (Ordovician of China)

Where: Hubei, China (30.9° N, 111.4° E: paleocoordinates 12.8° N, 137.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baltoniodus norrlandicus - Microzarkodina parva conodont zone, 3 Member (Dawan Formation), Dapingian (470.0 - 467.3 Ma)

• Base of Member 3

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; gray, green, yellow, argillaceous 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 116200: 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.
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Hexacopyge nasuta Lu 1957 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Liomegalaspides blackwelderi Weller 1907 trilobite
"Megalaspides taningensis" = Liomegalaspides taningensis Weller 1907 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Rhombampyx yii Lu 1965 trilobite
Was Raphiophorinae indet.
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
 Proetida - Telephinidae
Carolinites genacinaca Ross 1951 trilobite
 Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Agerina elongata Lu 1975 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae