Where: Guizhou, China (27.7° N, 107.4° E: paleocoordinates 9.3° N, 126.6° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Coronograptus cyphus graptolite zone, Niuchang Formation, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: silty mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: B. Huang, J.-Y. Rong, and D. A. T. Harper. 2013. A New Survivor Species of Dicoelosia (Brachiopoda) from Rhuddanian (Silurian) Shallower-Water Biofacies in South China. Journal of Paleontology 87(2):232-242 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 151953: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.10.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Zygospiraella venusta Rong and Yang 1981 | |
Dolerorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Dicoelosia cathaysiensis n. sp.
Dicoelosia cathaysiensis n. sp. Huang et al. 2013 | |
Levenea qianbeiensis Rong et al. 1974 |