Where: Xinjiang, China (40.6° N, 79.5° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° S, 112.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Climacograptus lanceolatus graptolite zone, Yingan Formation, Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)
• one of lower collections in bed 2 [= bed 25 of Zhou et al 2014]
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, black mudstone and lithified, argillaceous, sandy 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, B. D. Webby, and W. Yuan. 1995. Ordovician trilobites from the Yingan Formation of northwestern Tarim, Xinjiang, northwestern China. Alcheringa 19(1):47-72 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188409: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 31.08.2017, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Pterobranchia | |
Rectograptus amplexicaulis Hall 1847 graptolite
Amplexograptus praetypicalis Riva 1987 graptolite
Orthograptus quadrimucronatus Hall 1865 graptolite | |
Trilobita | |
Taklamakania tarimensis Zhang 1979 trilobite |