JM25 - Mulinlong (Ordovician of China)

Where: Jiangxi, China (28.7° N, 118.5° E: paleocoordinates 1.8° N, 124.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Diceratograptus mirus graptolite zone, Upper Member (Changwu Formation), Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified mudstone

• Clayey mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Zhan and Jin in 2003

Primary reference: R.-b. Zhan, J.-y. Rong, J. Jin and L.R.M. Cocks. 2002. Late Ordovician brachiopod communities of southeast China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39:445-468 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 186271: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.06.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella sinensis" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sinensis Wang and Jin 1964
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer praecursor Rong et al. 1994
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
 Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae