TangTouChun (Ordovician to of China)

Where: JiangSu, China (32.0° N, 119.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.4° N, 129.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Nankinolithus nankinensis trilobite zone, Lower Member (Tangtou Formation), Soudleyan to Soudleyan (457.5 - 452.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• light gray mudstone and grayish yellow nodular lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: X. Chen, T. E. Chen, X. P. Zhou, J. Y. Qiu, Y. N. Ni and X. C. Yang. 1988. Ordovician system of the Lower Yangtze region in Jiangsu Province. Sinian-Triassic biostratigraphy of the Lower Yangtze peneplatform in Jiangsu Region 81-126 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7943: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 09.06.2000, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Baltoceratidae
 Oncocerida - Oncoceratidae
Richardsonoceras sp. Foerste 1932
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae
Christiania nilssoni Sheehan 1973
Was Christiania sp.
 Strophomenida - Leptestiidae
Leptestiina sp. Opik 1933
Leptestiina prantli Havlicek 1952
 Strophomenida - Anoptambonitidae
? Durranella sp. Percival 1979
 Strophomenida - Foliomenidae
Foliomena folium Barrande 1879
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Atrypida - Cyclospiridae
? Cyclospira scanica Sheehan 1973
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
? Parastrophinella sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
? Philhedra sp. Koken 1889
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Acrothelidae
? Acrothele sp. Linnarsson 1876
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Raphiophorus sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Dionididae
Dionide sp. Barrande 1847 trilobite
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
Cyclopyge sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Amphitryon sp. Hawle and Corda 1874 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Meitanillaenus sp. Zhang 1974 trilobite
 Proetida - Rorringtoniidae
"Madygenia sp." = Pseudobirmanites
"Madygenia sp." = Pseudobirmanites Li 1978 trilobite
 Proetida - Telephinidae
Telephina sp. Marek 1952 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Atractopyge sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Encrinurella sp., "Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus
Encrinurella sp. Reed 1915 trilobite
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus Koroleva 1959 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
"Calymenesum sp." = Calymenesun
"Calymenesum sp." = Calymenesun Kobayashi 1951 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Trinodus sp. M'Coy 1846
Corrugatagnostus sp. Kobayashi 1939