Pulau Langgun, Langkawi. 0-1 m (Ordovician of Malaysia)

Also known as Pulau Langoon

Where: Malaysia (6.4° N, 99.9° E: paleocoordinates 23.7° N, 133.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Metabolograptus extraordinarius graptolite zone, Tanjung Dendang Formation, Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)

• Overlies Kaki Bukit formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; red, carbonaceous siltstone

• Graptolites are present mainly in the well-bedded, carbonaceous siltstones and shales where the individual bed is generally less than 10 cm in thickness

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. A. Saparin and M. S. Ismail. 2023. Latest Ordovician to earliest Silurian graptolites of northwest Peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Paleontology 91(1) [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228929: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.01.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Only graptolites reported
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Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
Anticostia aff. lata
Anticostia aff. lata Elles and Wood 1906 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Neodiplograptidae
Metabolograptus extraordinarius, Metabolograptus ojsuensis, Neodiplograptus shanchongensis, Korenograptus elegantulus
Metabolograptus extraordinarius Sobolevskaya 1974 graptolite
Metabolograptus ojsuensis Koren' and Mikhailova 1980 graptolite
Neodiplograptus shanchongensis Li 1984 graptolite
Korenograptus elegantulus Mu and Ni 1983 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Normalograptidae
Normalograptus ajjeri, Normalograptus temalaensis, Normalograptus aff. mirnyensis
Normalograptus ajjeri Legrand 1977 graptolite
Normalograptus temalaensis Jones 1973 graptolite
Normalograptus aff. mirnyensis Obut and Sobolevskaya 1967 graptolite