QierQieKe Fm., Kwabulatag, SanSan Co., XinJiang Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: XinJiang, China (43.0° N, 90.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 90.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: QierQieKe Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, volcaniclastic, black, gray, calcareous, cherty/siliceous siltstone and concretionary, black, gray, argillaceous limestone

• Black to grayish-black, tuffaceous, siliceous siltstone with limestone nodules and blackish-gray, muddy limestone with black siliceous nodules

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 20792: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 07.06.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
Pseudoclimacograptus sp., Climacograptus sp.
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid
Cephalopoda
 Tarphycerida - Trocholitidae
Discoceras sp.
Discoceras sp. Barrande 1867
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Sinoceras sp.
Sinoceras sp. Shimizu et al. 1935
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphus sp.
Asaphus sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite