D9 - Daping section, sample level 9 (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 116205: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 06.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

• References focuses on trilobites.
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Hanchungolithinae indet. Lu 1963 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Liomegalaspides sp. Lu and Chang 1974 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenidae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Ovalocephalus sp. Koroleva 1959 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Reedocalymeninae indet. Hupe 1955 trilobite