SanDaoGou Fm., MaQuGou, Long Co., Shaan'Xi Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: Shaanxi, China (35.0° N, 107.0° E: paleocoordinates 22.5° S, 126.4° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Sandaogou Formation, Llanvirn (468.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray limestone

• gray limestone

Primary reference: Y. S. Zhang. 1983. Stratigraphic table of northwestern region of China: ShaanXi Province part. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China 12-28 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8536: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.08.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Eobronteus sp. Reed 1928 trilobite
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Tropidodiscus sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 snail
 Murchisoniina - Trochonematidae
Trochonemella sp. Okulitch 1935 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail
 Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Ecculiomphalus sp. Portlock 1843 snail
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Eoorthidae
Eoorthis sp. Walcott 1908
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928