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 2 within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; silty mudstone
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 185167: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Ampyxinella sp. Korleva 1959 trilobite | |
Cyclopyge sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
? Anazyga sp. Davidson 1882 | |
Strophomenata | |
Sericoidea minuta Zhan et al. 2014 | |
Lingulata | |
? Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 |