Also known as SaErGan Fm., YinGan, KePin Co., XinJiang Prov., China
Where: XinJiang, China (40.1° N, 80.3° E: paleocoordinates 30.8° S, 119.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Saergan Formation, Llanvirn (468.0 - 458.4 Ma)
• Spelled "SaErGan"
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; black, gray, silty shale and black limestone
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 20805: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 07.06.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
| Pterobranchia | |
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Janograptus sp. graptolite
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite | |
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Pterograptus sp. Holm 1881 graptolite | |
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Isograptus sp. Moberg 1892 graptolite | |
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Cryptograptus sp. graptolite
Glossograptus sp. graptolite | |
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Glyptograptus sp. graptolite | |
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Amplexograptus sp. graptolite | |
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Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid
Pseudoclimacograptus sp. climacograptid | |
| Trilobita | |
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Birmanites sp. Sheng 1934 trilobite | |
"Yinganaspis sp." = Tarimella
"Yinganaspis sp." = Tarimella Zhang 1979 trilobite | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Jiangshanolites sp. Lin and Chow tabulate coral | |