HuangCaoPo Group, WuLeiGai, YiWi Co., XinJiang Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: XinJiang, China (43.0° N, 95.0° E: paleocoordinates 20.5° N, 33.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: HuangCaoPo Group, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; volcaniclastic, black, gray, cherty/siliceous phyllite and metamorphosed, volcaniclastic, cherty/siliceous slate

• Gray-black to gray feldspar-rich, andesitic phyllite and siliceous slate with tuff

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. S. Zhang. 1981. Stratigraphic table of northwestern region of China: XinJiang Province part. 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 20789: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 07.06.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella sp.
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Leptelloidea sp.
Leptelloidea sp. Jones 1928
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
Strophonella sp.
Strophonella sp. Hall 1879
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp.
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp.
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Mendacella sp.
Mendacella sp. Cooper 1930
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Resserella sp., Isorthis sp.
Resserella sp. Bancroft 1928
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929