Where: Jilin Provence, China (42.1° N, 126.7° E: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 139.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mictosukia- Fatocephalus zone trilobite zone, Fengshan Formation, Niuchehean (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)
• Fengshanian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Trilobites and Conodonts only, Collected in the Xiaoyangqiao lower section, collection 4-5, 9m from the base of the formation
Primary reference: J.-W. Chen, Y.-Y. Qian, J.-M. Zhang, Y.-K. Lin, L.-M. Yin, Z.-H. Wang, Z.-Z. Wang, J.-D. Yang, and Y.-X. Wang. 1988. The recommended Cambrian - Ordovician global Boundry stratotype of the Xiaoyangqiao section (Dayangcha, Jilin Province), China. In W. B. Harland, C. P. Hughes, R. S. J. Sparks, N. H. Woodcock, I. N. McCave (eds.), Geological Magazine 125(4):415-444 [M. Hopkins/S. Mahmood/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 156906: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 02.06.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Trilobita | |
Haniwa elongata trilobite | |
Mictosaukia striata trilobite
Mictosaukia orientalis Resser and Endo 1937 trilobite
Calvinella micropora trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
Neoagnostus quasibilobus Shergold 1975 | |
Conodonta | |
Furnishina furnishi Muller 1959 conodont
Prooneotodus rotundatus conodont
Prooneotodus gallatini Müller 1959 conodont | |
Eoconodontus notchpeakensis Miller 1969 conodont
Cordylodus proavus Müller 1959 conodont | |
Phakelodus tenuis Muller 1959 conodont | |
Teridontus nakamurai Nogami 1967 conodont |