Where: Xinjiang, China (40.6° N, 79.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.8° S, 115.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Climacograptus bicornis graptolite zone, Kanling Formation, Sandbian (458.4 - 453.0 Ma)
• one of lower collections in bed 16
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, gray, argillaceous lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1987; reposited in the NIGPAS
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
• Collection made as part of an extensive field investigation of the periphery of the Tarim Basin by geologists of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, and the 05 Project Administration, Bureau of Petroleum Geology of Southwest China.
Primary reference: Z. Zhou, G. Yin, and Z. Zhou. 2014. Ordovician (Darriwilian-early Katian) trilobite faunas of northwestern Tarim, Xinjiang, China. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 46:1-142 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188352: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 29.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Paraperaspis convergens Lu 1975 trilobite | |
Microparia (Microparia) acuta Zhang 1981 trilobite
Sagavia laxa Zhou et al. 2014 trilobite |