Tai-chia-pu-tzu, 2 miles west of Chiao-tou station, Liao-Tung (Ordovician of China)

Also known as This is an occupational name and now is probably different

Where: Manchuria, China (41.2° N, 123.8° E: paleocoordinates 8.0° S, 127.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wuting Formation, Llanvirn (468.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, black limestone

• black-banded limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: R. Endo. 1932. The Canadian and Ordovician formations and fossils of South Manchuria. United States National Museum Bulletin 164:1-149 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56134: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Phragmolites sp. Conrad 1838 snail
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
"Oxydiscus planulatus n. sp." = Groomodiscus planulatus
"Oxydiscus planulatus n. sp." = Groomodiscus planulatus Endo 1932 snail
type locality