WenChang Fm., TanTou, ChunAn Co., ZheJiang Prov., China (Ordovician of China)
Where: ZheJiang, China (29.0° N, 119.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.4° N, 123.3° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Wenchang Formation, Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, silty sandstone and mudstone
• sandstone (often feldspar rich) and mudstone with some siltstone
Primary reference: Stratigraphic Group of Zhejiang, China. 1979. Regional stratigraphic table of Eastern China, Zhejiang Province. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 7775: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.06.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Stenolaemata | |
Ptilodictya sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Rhinidictya sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913 | |
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862 | |
Reuschella sp. Bancroft 1928 | |
Plectorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
"Ancistrorhynchia sp." = Ancistrorhyncha
"Ancistrorhynchia sp." = Ancistrorhyncha Ulrich and Cooper 1942 | |
Lepidocyclus sp. Wang 1949
Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860 | |
Strophomenata | |
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824 | |
Glyptomena sp. Cooper 1956 | |
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928 | |
Leptellina sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
Gastropoda | |
Lesueurilla sp. Koken 1898 snail | |
Ophileta sp. Vanuxem 1842 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam | |
Pterobranchia | |
Orthograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite | |
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid |