Ze - Zhaojiaba (Ordovician of China)

Where: Shaanxi, China (32.9° N, 106.3° E: paleocoordinates 16.4° N, 143.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Azygograptus suecicus graptolite zone, Chaochiapa Formation, Arenigian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

• Approximately 48 m above base of section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified packstone and wackestone

• from lithology key.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Turvey in 1998-1999

Primary reference: S. T. Turvey and Z. Zhou. 2004. Arenig trilobite associations and faunal changes in Southern Shaanxi, China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 23:91-103 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 192939: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.04.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• References focuses on trilobites.
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae
 Asaphida - Asaphidae