AM78. Northwest of Linwe (Ordovician of Myanmar)

Where: Southern Shan, Myanmar (21.2° N, 96.6° E: paleocoordinates 21.2° N, 96.5° E)

When: Naungkangyi Group, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• Probably early Caradoc

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: hydrochloric

Primary reference: L. R. M. Cocks and R.-b. Zhan. 1998. Caradoc brachiopods from the Shan States, Burma (Myanmar). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Geology) 54:109 -130 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186283: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.06.2017

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
"Neseuretus birmanicus" = Neseuretinus birmanicus
"Neseuretus birmanicus" = Neseuretinus birmanicus Reed 1906 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida -
Orthoidea indet. Woodward 1852
 Orthida - Productorthidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Dirafinesquina globosa n. gen. n. sp.
Dirafinesquina globosa n. gen. n. sp. Cocks and Zhan 1998
 Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Glyptomena sp. Cooper 1956
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Leptellina (Leptellina) minor Cocks and Zhan 1998