Locality 5. 800 m south of Zhuzhai (Ordovician of China)

Where: Jiangxi, China (28.6° N, 118.3° E: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 124.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dicellograptus complexus graptolite zone, Xiazhen Formation, Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)

• Note that Dicellograptus complexus zone is longer in this region.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bafflestone and lithified bindstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D.-C. Lee. 2013. Late Ordovician Trilobites from the Xiazhen Formation in Zhuzhai, Jiangxi Province, China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58(4):855-882 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192822: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.04.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Eospirigerina sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1930
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella sinensis" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sinensis
"Sowerbyella sinensis" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sinensis Wang and Jin 1964
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Oxoplecia sp. Wilson 1913
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
cf. Reedocalymene sp. Kobayashi 1951 trilobite
Vietnamia "sp. E" Kobayashi 1960 trilobite
Vietnamia yushanensis Lee 2013 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
"Remopleurides aff. nasutus" = Hexacopyge nasuta, Remopleurides xiazhenensis n. sp.
"Remopleurides aff. nasutus" = Hexacopyge nasuta Lu 1957 trilobite
Remopleurides xiazhenensis n. sp. Lee 2013 trilobite