Where: Jiangsu, China (32.0° N, 119.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.1° S, 127.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Kuanyinchiao Member (Wufeng Formation), Wufeng (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
• Listed as Wufengian Age
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, cherty/siliceous mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: 19 cm thick section; pooled samples
Primary reference: E. Z. Mu. 1988. The Ordovician-Silurian boundary in China. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 43:117-131 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75548: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 16.10.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Leonaspis sinensis trilobite | |
Platycoryphe sp. Foerste 1919 trilobite | |
Dalmanitina yichangensis trilobite | |
Gastropoda | |
Holopea sp. Hall 1847 snail | |
Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam | |
Hyolitha | |
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840 | |
Strophomenata | |
Triplesia sp. Hall 1859 | |
"Paromalomena polonica" = Paromalomena macmahoni
"Paromalomena polonica" = Paromalomena macmahoni Reed 1915 | |
"Aegiromena ultima" = Aegiromena (Aegiromenella) planissima
"Aegiromena ultima" = Aegiromena (Aegiromenella) planissima Reed 1915 |