Where: Hubei, China (30.5° N, 114.5° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 125.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Fentou Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
• Fentou Formation in the Huangjintang section of Wuhan City, Hubei Province, central China
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. Wang, J. Dunlop, Z. Gai, X. Lei, E. A. Jarzembowski and B. Wang. 2021. First mixopterid eurypterids (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) from the Lower Silurian of South China. Science Bulletin 66:2277-2280 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 225099: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Roy Plotnick on 25.04.2022, edited by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Euchelicerata | |
Terropterus sp. Wang et al. 2021 eurypterid | |
Jiangxialepis retrospina | |
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