Dongkala section, Meitan, Guizhou, Meitan Fm (Ordovician of China)

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
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Nuia sp. Maslov 1954
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladaceae sp. Kutzing 1843
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Codiaceae sp. Kützing 1843
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Radiocyatha
  - Soanitidae
Calathium sp. Billings 1865