Taoqupo (O3p) - lower TQPBD (Ordovician of China)

Where: China (35.0° N, 108.9° E: paleocoordinates 23.4° S, 124.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Pingliang Formation, Sandbian (458.4 - 453.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone and packstone

• microbial reef limestone & packstone (Girvanella)

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: L. Liu, Y. Wu, H. Bao, H. Jiang, L. Zheng and Y. Chen. 2021. Diversity and systematics of Middle-Late Ordovician calcified cyanobacteria and associated microfossils from Ordos Basin, North China. Journal of Paleontology 95(1):1-23 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 226105: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 17.06.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Phacelophyton yushanensis
Proaulopora
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Proaulopora ordosia n. sp.
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis granosus
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella problematica
Girvanella problematica Nicholson and Etheridge 1878