AFA 415-416. Shichang’ao, Ganxi (Ordovician of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (28.4° N, 108.5° E: paleocoordinates 8.7° N, 127.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Kuanyinchiao Formation, Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, calcareous mudstone

• Calcareous mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J.-Y. Rong, X. Chen, and D. A. T. Harper. 2002. The latest Ordovician Hirnantia Fauna (Brachiopoda) in time and space. Lethaia 35:231-249 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153000: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 04.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Figure 3
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Hindella incipiens Williams 1951
Hindella crassa incipiens
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
 Orthida - Draboviidae
"Kinnella kielanae" = Kinnella medlicotti Reed 1915
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Fardenia cf. modica Rong and Li 1999
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Cliftonia sp. Foerste 1909
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
"Paromalomena polonica" = Paromalomena macmahoni
"Paromalomena polonica" = Paromalomena macmahoni Reed 1915
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanitina sp. Reed 1905 trilobite