Where: Guizhou, China (27.8° N, 107.5° E: paleocoordinates 17.4° N, 136.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Middle Member (Meitan Formation), Dapingian (470.0 - 467.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; nodular, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone and bindstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: Q.-J. Li, Y. Li, K. Steve, Y. Zhang, and X. Deng. 2010. "Middle Member Limestone" of the Ordovician Meitan Formation in Dongkala, Fenggang, Northern Guizhou, SW China: typical warm marine facies. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 27(2):150-158 [W. Kiessling/Q. Li]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 154822: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Qijian Li on 14.03.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Nuia | |
Nuia sp. Maslov 1954 | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Dasycladaceae sp. Kutzing 1843 | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Codiaceae sp. Kützing 1843 | |
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Radiocyatha | |
Calathium sp. Billings 1865 |