Shijiezigou section, Layer 10, Beiguoshan Fm, Guyuan City (Ordovician of China)

Where: China (36.2° N, 106.6° E: paleocoordinates 26.4° S, 120.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Beiguoshan Formation, Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)

• Lower Katian

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; wackestone

• 4.6 m thick, composed of thick-bedded dasycladacean wackestones with dolomitic patches.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Zheng, H. Bao, Y. Wu, L. Sun, H. Jiang, J. Ren, Z. Huang and L. Liu. 2018. Distinguishing coral reef facies from coral-bearing open platform facies: Examples from Ordovician Ordos Basin, Northwest China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 495:72-86 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193316: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 11.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladaceae indet.
Dasycladaceae indet. Kutzing 1843
Ulvophyceae
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Vermiporella borealis, Vermiporella acerosa, Vermiporella fragilis
Vermiporella fragilis Stolley 1893
unclassified
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Echinoderma indet.
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet.
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora sp.
Catenipora sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral