Quijing (Silurian of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (25.5° N, 103.7° E: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 130.0° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Miaokao Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• = Miaogao

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y.-h. Xi and W. Yu. 1990. New materials of Silurian gastropods from SW. China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 29(5):620-629 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56660: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Ptychospirina sp.
Ptychospirina sp. Perner 1907 snail
Given as Ptychospira
 Euomphalina - Anomphalidae
Pycnomphalus cf. obesus
Pycnomphalus cf. obesus Lindström 1884 snail
 Euomphalina - Oriostomatidae
? Oriostoma sp.
? Oriostoma sp. Munier-Chalmas 1876 snail
 Eogastropoda - Sinuopeidae
Umbospira cf. nigricans
Umbospira cf. nigricans Perner 1903 snail
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma kutsingensis
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella tingi
Howellella tingi
[entered as Howellela tingi]