Where: LiaoNing, China (40.0° N, 123.0° E: paleocoordinates 6.1° S, 131.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: LiangJiaShan Formation, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, dolomitic limestone and lithified, concretionary, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: Stratigraphic Group of LiaoNing and HeNan Provinces. 1989. Regional stratigraphic table of northern China: LiaoNing and HeNan Provinces. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China (Original source resides with A. Miller) [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20756: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 06.06.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Demospongiae | |
Archaeoscyphia sp. Hinde 1889 demosponge | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Plectorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Proterocameroceras sp. Ruedemann 1905 | |
Hemipiloceras sp. Shimizu et al.
Cameroceras sp. Conrad 1842 | |
Manchuroceras sp. Ozaki 1927 | |
Piloceras sp. Salter 1859 | |
Coreanoceras sp. Kobayashi 1931 | |
Gastropoda | |
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail | |
Ophileta sp. Vanuxem 1842 snail | |
Hormotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail | |
Trilobita | |
"Megalaspidella sp." = Asaphellus
"Megalaspidella sp." = Asaphellus Callaway 1877 trilobite |