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: KanKing Formation, Caradoc (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, gray, argillaceous 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 20802: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 07.06.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cyclolituites sp. Remelé 1886
Trilacinoceras sp. Sweet 1958 | |
Richardsonoceras sp. Foerste 1932
Cyrtorizoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 | |
Trocholites sp. Conrad 1838
Discoceras sp. Barrande 1867 | |
Gastropoda | |
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
Straparollus sp. de Montfort 1810 snail | |
Ecculiomphalus sp. Portlock 1843 snail | |
Trilobita | |
Lonchodomas sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite | |
Dionide sp. Barrande 1847 trilobite | |
Nileus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Cyclopyge sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Microparia sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Birmanites sp. Sheng 1934 trilobite
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite | |
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus Koroleva 1959 trilobite | |
Actinopeltis sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Stubblefieldia sp. Prantl and Pribyl 1947 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
Trinodus sp. M'Coy 1846
Geragnostus sp. Howell 1935 |