Sorotgol, Duwibong Fm (Ordovician to of South Korea)

Also known as Taebaeksan Basin

Where: Kangweondo (Gangwon-do), South Korea (37.1° N, 128.9° E: paleocoordinates 5.1° S, 133.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Plectodina onychodonta conodont zone, Duwibong Formation, Llanvirnian to Llanvirnian (468.1 - 460.9 Ma)

• Aurilobodus serratus conodont zones.

•Llanvirnian to early Llandeilian

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; wackestone and grainstone

• massive wackestone to grainstone, calcareous shale, and intercalated thin layers of limestone conglomeratesintraskeletal crypts of a lithistid sponge-Calathium reef

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Jeon, Q. Li, J.-R. Oh, S.-J. Choh, and D.-J. Lee. 2018. A new species of the primitive stromatoporoid Cystostroma from the Ordovician of East Asia. Geosciences Journal [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198260: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 12.12.2018

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Taxonomic list

Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Rosenellidae
Cystostroma primordia Jeon et al. 2018 stromatoporoid sponge
Radiocyatha
  - Soanitidae
Calathium sp. Billings 1865
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida -
Nicholsonella sp. Ulrich 1890