AFL 067 Tangtou hill, northwest side of the Litang Reservoir (Silurian of China)

Also known as AFL 67

Where: Jiangxi, China (28.7° N, 118.4° E: paleocoordinates 0.4° N, 122.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Akidograptus ascensus graptolite zone, Shiyang Formation, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J.-Y. Rong and R.-B. Zhan. 2006. Surviving the end-Ordovician extinctions: evidence from the earliest Silurian brachiopods of northeastern Jiangxi and western Zhejiang provinces, East China. Lethaia 39(1):39-48 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151943: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 23.10.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Katastrophomena zheganensis Rong et al. 2013
was 26 spc.
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rugosa Dalman 1828
was 11 spc.
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Fardenia (Fardenia) flexa Rong et al. 2013
was 5 spc.
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Virgianidae
Brevilamnulella kjerulfi Kiaer 1902
was 62 spc.
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
 Orthida - Cathaysiorthidae
Cathaysiorthis yushanensis Zeng and Hu 1997
was 7 spc.
 Orthida - Orthidae
Orthidae "sp. indet." Woodward 1852
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Levenea llandoveriana Williams 1951
was 138 spc.
 Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer (Eospirifer) eosinensis Rong et al. 2013
was 8 spc.
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Eospirigerina putilla Hall and Clarke 1894
was 24 spc.
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Thebesia thebesensis Foerste 1909
? Rostricellula sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
was 5 spc.
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Pseudolingulidae
? Pseudolingula sp. Mickwitz 1909
Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
"Paracraniops cf. pararia" = Paracraniops pararius
"Paracraniops cf. pararia" = Paracraniops pararius Williams 1962
was 6 spc.