Wu’ai village of Songfan Town (Ordovician of China)
Also known as Reef 4076
Where: China (29.0° N, 118.5° E: paleocoordinates 2.3° N, 125.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Sanqushan Formation), Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)
• Late Katian
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: Q. Li, Y. Li, and W. Kiessling. 2015. The first sphinctozoan-bearing reef from an Ordovician back-arc basin. Facies 61(17) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 173372: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 21.09.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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unclassified | |
Demospongiae | |
Corymbospongia sp. Rigby and Potter 1986 demosponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Streptelasma sp. Hall 1847 horn coral | |
Palaeophyllum sp. Billings 1858 horn coral | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Renalcis | |
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932 | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Dasyporella sp. Stolley 1893 | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Vermiporella sp. Stolley 1893 | |
Epiphyton | |
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886 | |
Tetradium | |
Tetradium sp. Dana 1846 | |
Kordephyton | |
Kordephyton sp. Radugin and Strepanova 1964 |