Where: XinJiang, China (41.0° N, 79.0° E: paleocoordinates 32.9° S, 114.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: SaerGanTag Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green, argillaceous limestone and gray, green siltstone
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 20801: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 07.06.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Artiopoda | |
Geragnostus sp. Howell 1935 | |
Trilobita | |
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Dionide sp. Barrande 1847 trilobite | |
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite | |
Birmanites sp. Sheng 1934 trilobite | |
Nileus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Cyclopyge sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873 trilobite | |
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus Koroleva 1959 trilobite | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ancistroceras sp. Remele 1881 | |
Discoceras sp. Barrande 1867 | |
Pterobranchia | |
Pseudoclimacograptus sp. climacograptid | |
Dicranograptus sp. Hall 1865 graptolite | |
Corynoides sp. Nicholson 1867 graptolite
Orthograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite |