AAE-651. Zhonggou, about 3 km northwest of Yanzikou, (Ordovician of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (27.6° N, 105.4° E: paleocoordinates 11.4° N, 128.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• bioclastic micritic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original silica

Collected by Rong Jia-yu & Xu Han-kui in 1963

Primary reference: J.-Y. Rong and R.-Y. Li. 1999. A silicified Hirnantia Fauna (latest Ordovician brachiopods) from Guizhou, Southwest China. Journal of Paleontology 73(5):831-849 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153320: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 09.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lambelasmatidae
Lambeophyllum sp.
Lambeophyllum sp. Okulitch 1938 horn coral
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella testudinaria
 Rhynchonellida - Sphenotretidae
Dorytreta longicrura n. sp.
Dorytreta longicrura n. sp. Rong and Li 1999
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Plectothyrella crassicosta
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Hindella incipiens
Hindella incipiens Williams 1951
Hindella crassa incipiens
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Fardenia modica n. sp.
Fardenia modica n. sp. Rong and Li 1999
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Eostropheodonta sp.
Eostropheodonta sp. Bancroft 1949
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma sp.
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
"? Cirropsis sp." = Holopea
"? Cirropsis sp." = Holopea Hall 1847 snail