HuDuKeDaBan Fm., GouZiGou, HouCheng Co., XinJiang Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: XinJiang, China (44.0° N, 81.0° E: paleocoordinates 11.1° S, 74.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: HuDuKeDaBan Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; black, gray limestone

• Grayish-black limestone

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 20790: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 07.06.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Palaeophyllum sp. Billings 1858 horn coral
 Favositida - Agetolitidae
Agetolitella sp. Kim 1962 tabulate coral
Agetolites sp. Sokolov 1955 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Mesofavosites sp. Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
Paleofavosites sp. Twenhofel 1914 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Parastriatoporidae
Kolymopora sp. Preobrazhenskiy 1964 tabulate coral
 Tetradiida - Tetradiidae
Rhabdotetradium sp. Sokolov 1955 tabulate coral
 Lichenariida - Lyoporidae
Eofletcheria sp. Bassler 1950 tabulate coral
Reuschia sp. Kiaer 1930 tabulate coral
Nyctopora sp. Nicholson 1879 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Plasmoporellidae
Plasmoporella sp. Kiaer 1899 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Demospongiae
 Chaetetida - Cryptolichenariidae
? Amsassia sp. Sokolov and Mironova 1959 chaetetid sponge