horizon 6, Feilaishi section (Ordovician of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (27.8° N, 106.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 4.5° S, 75.7° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Glyptograptus teretiusculus foram zone, Shihtzupu Formation, Llandeilo (461.1 - 458.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray, green, sandy, calcareous mudstone

• Bed is 5.4 m interval of yellowish-green, thin-bedded, sandy and calcareous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Zhou, Yin, Tripp; reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: Z. Zhou, G. Yin, and R. P. Tripp. 1984. Trilobites from the Ordovician Shihtzupu Formation, Zunyi, Guizhou Province, China. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 75:13-36 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188422: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 31.08.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus renhuaiensis, Illaenus kueichouensis, ? Bumastoides shihtzupuensis
Illaenus kueichouensis Lu 1957 trilobite
? Bumastoides shihtzupuensis Sun 1931 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Annamitella sp.
Annamitella sp. Mansuy 1920 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
? Cybelurus sinensis
 Phacopida - Prosopiscidae
Prosopiscus rugosus
Prosopiscus rugosus Lu 1974 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymenesun tingi
Calymenesun tingi Sun 1931 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Lonchodomas yohi
Lonchodomas yohi Sun 1931 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Birmanites sp., Birmanites hupeiensis
Birmanites sp. Sheng 1934 trilobite
Birmanites hupeiensis Yi 1957 trilobite