Huangjintang section (Silurian of China)

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
 Eurypterida - Mixopteridae
Terropterus sp. Wang et al. 2021 eurypterid
Jiangxialepis retrospina
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Jiangxialepis retrospina Liu et al. 2021
Holotype BGEG-JXD-07