Fusong-Hunjiang, Jilin Provn, Liangjiashan Fm (Ordovician to of China)

Where: Jilin , China (43.6° N, 125.2° E: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 131.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Liangjiashan Formation, Tremadocian to Tremadocian (485.4 - 470.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; flat-pebble lime mudstone and shelly/skeletal wackestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: S. Z. Guo. 1983. The receptaculitid Soanites from the Early Ordovician of China. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 1:75-84 [W. Kiessling/Q. Li]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154815: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Qijian Li on 14.03.2014, edited by Mihaela Krause

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Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
  - Receptaculitidae
Cephalopoda
 Bisonocerida - Manchuroceratidae
 Tarphycerida - Trocholitidae
Hardmanoceras sp. Teichert and Glenister 1952
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Ophileta plana Grabau 1922 snail
Radiocyatha
  - Soanitidae
Calathium sp. Billings 1865
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Labechiidae
Labechia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stromatoporoid sponge
Demospongiae
 Lithistida - Anthaspidellidae