Where: China (40.1° N, 78.8° E: paleocoordinates 31.2° S, 117.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lenodus crassus conodont zone, Middle Member (Yijianfang Formation), Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)
• Lenodus variabilis zone
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; packstone and grainstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: H. Rong, Y. Jiao, Y. Wang, L. Wu, and R. Wang. 2013. Distribution and geologic significance of Girvanella within the Yijianfang Ordovician reef complexes in the Bachu area, West Tarim Basin, China. Facies [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 154901: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 18.03.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
Protocycloceras sp. Hyatt 1900 | |
Dideroceras sp. Flower 1950
Chisiloceras sp. Gortani 1934 | |
Gastropoda | |
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail | |
Lesueurilla sp. Koken 1898 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Strophomenata | |
Triplesia sp. Hall 1859 | |
Trilobita | |
Nileus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite | |
Scotoharpes sp. Lamont 1948 trilobite | |
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Lyralichas sp. Weber 1948 trilobite | |
Radiocyatha | |
Calathium sp. Billings 1865 |