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
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original silica
Collected by Li Rong-yu in 1993
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 153321: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 09.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Lambeophyllum sp. Okulitch 1938 horn coral | |
| Gastropoda | |
"? Cirropsis sp." = Holopea
"? Cirropsis sp." = Holopea Hall 1847 snail | |
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Hormotoma sp. snail | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Hindella crassa Sowerby 1839 | |
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Dorytreta longicrura Rong and Li 1999 | |
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Plectothyrella crassicosta Dalman 1828 | |
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Dalmanella testudinaria Dalman 1828 | |
| Strophomenata | |
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Fardenia modica Rong and Li 1999 | |
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Eostropheodonta sp. Bancroft 1949 | |