XiaShe (Ordovician of China)

Also known as YinWaShan Fm., XiaShe, JiangDe Co., ZheJiang Prov., China

Where: ZheJiang, China (30.0° N, 120.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.5° N, 127.5° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Yenwashan Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, concretionary, gray, calcareous limestone and mudstone

• brickish gray nodular limestone and calcareous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 7781: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.06.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Corrugatagnostus sp. Kobayashi 1939
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus Koroleva 1959 trilobite
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
Cyclopyge sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Birmanites sp. Sheng 1934 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Nankinolithus sp. Lu 1957 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Cephalopoda
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Vaginoceras sp. Hyatt 1884
 Orthocerida - Sactorthoceratidae
Sactorthoceras sp. Kobayashi 1934
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Phragmolites sp. Conrad 1838 snail
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae
Christiania sp. Hall and Clarke 1892