D6 - Daping section, sample level 6 (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: Dawan Formation, Arenigian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithology not reported

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 116202: 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
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Incaia sp. Whittard 1955 trilobite
Ningkianolithus welleri trilobite
Hanchungolithinae indet.
Yinpanolithus sp. Lu and Chang 1974 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Raphiophorinae indet. Angelin 1854 trilobite
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
Rhombampyx yii Lu 1965 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus walcotti Endo 1932 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Gog yangtzeensis Lu 1975 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Hexacopyge nasuta Lu 1957 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Shumardia (Shumardia) sp. Fortey and Owens 1987 trilobite
Shumardiidae indet.
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Agerina elongata Lu 1975 trilobite
Pseudocalymene sp. Pillet 1974 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Neseuretus intermedius
  -
"Neseuretus intermedius" = Aristocalymene intermedia
"Neseuretus intermedius" = Aristocalymene intermedia Lu 1975
was 2 Reedocalymeninae indet.