AFA 434. Ludiping (Ordovician of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (28.2° N, 109.1° E: paleocoordinates 8.3° N, 126.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Normalograptus extraordinarius graptolite zone, Kuanyinchiao Formation, Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray, argillaceous, calcareous mudstone

• The lower-middle parts are composed of dark grey argillaceous limestone

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 153004: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 04.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Figure 4
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Holopea sp. Hall 1847 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Hindella incipiens Williams 1951
Hindella crassa incipiens
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
 Orthida - Draboviidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Pentamerida -
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Fardenia cf. modica Rong and Li 1999
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Cliftonia sp. Foerste 1909
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Leptaena trifidum" = Leptaena (Leptaena) trifidum
"Leptaena trifidum" = Leptaena (Leptaena) trifidum Marek and Havlíček 1967
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanitina sp. Reed 1905 trilobite