AFT- X145. Querqueke, Kuruktag (Ordovician of China)

Where: Xinjian, China (41.2° N, 87.6° E: paleocoordinates 31.5° S, 118.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dicellograptus complanatus graptolite zone, Yinpingshan Formation, Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)

• Overlies Yuanbaoshan formation. Unit 1 within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; silty mudstone

• Multicoloured silty mudstone with a few intercalations of thin-bedded sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. B. Zhan, J. Y. Rong, J. S. Jin, Y. Liang, W. W. Yuan, Y. D. Zhang, and Y. Wang. 2014. Discovery of a Late Ordovician Foliomena fauna in the Tarim desert, Northwest China. Palaeoworld 23:125-142 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185164: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.04.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Kweichowilla sp.
Kweichowilla sp. Zhang 1964 trilobite
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
Cyclopyge sp.
Cyclopyge sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyxinella sp.
Ampyxinella sp. Korleva 1959 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Nankinolithus sp.
Nankinolithus sp. Lu 1957 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
? Anazyga sp.
? Anazyga sp. Davidson 1882
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
? Rostricellula sp.
? Rostricellula sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Foliomenidae
Foliomena xinjiangensis n. sp.
Foliomena xinjiangensis n. sp. Zhan et al. 2014
 Strophomenida - Hesperomenidae
Kassinella tarimensis
Kassinella tarimensis Zhan et al. 2014
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
Sericoidea minuta
Sericoidea minuta Zhan et al. 2014
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
? Orbiculoidea sp.
? Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
Rectograptus truncatus, Rectograptus socialis, Amplexograptus manitoulinensis
Rectograptus truncatus Lapworth 1876 graptolite
Rectograptus socialis Lapworth 1880 graptolite
Amplexograptus manitoulinensis Caley 1936 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dicranograptidae
Dicellograptus elegans
Dicellograptus elegans Carruthers 1868 graptolite