S3 - Shuanghong section, sample level 3 (Ordovician of China)

Where: Hunan, China (29.8° N, 111.1° E: paleocoordinates 14.8° N, 138.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Zitai 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 116208: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 06.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

• References focuses on trilobites.
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenidae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Shumardiidae indet. Lake 1907 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
Proetidae indet. Salter 1864 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae