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

unclassified
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Demospongiae
 Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
Corymbospongia sp. Rigby and Potter 1986 demosponge
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Streptelasma sp. Hall 1847 horn coral
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Palaeophyllum sp. Billings 1858 horn coral
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Seletonellaceae
Dasyporella sp. Stolley 1893
Ulvophyceae
  -
Vermiporella sp. Stolley 1893
Epiphyton
  - Ludloviaceae
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886
Tetradium
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Tetradium sp. Dana 1846
Kordephyton
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Kordephyton sp. Radugin and Strepanova 1964