Huangnigang Fm., XinKaiLing, WuNing Co., (Ordovician to of China)

Where: JiangXi, China (29.0° N, 115.0° E: paleocoordinates 6.2° N, 128.0° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Huangnigang Formation, Actonian to Actonian (454.0 - 449.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary, gray, silty, calcareous shale

• gray to yellowish green calcareous shale and silty shale, sometimes with calcareous concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: Stratigraphic Group of Jiangxi, China. 1978. Regional stratigraphic table of Eastern China, Jiangxi Province. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7749: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.06.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Phillipsinella sp. Novak 1885 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Nankinolithus sp. Lu 1957 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Dionididae
Dionide sp. Barrande 1847 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
Cyclopyge sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus Koroleva 1959 trilobite