Upper middle section, TaoQiPo (Ordovician of China)

Also known as Upper middle section, TaoQiPo Group, TaoQiPo, Yao Co., Shaan'Xi Prov., China

Where: Shaanxi, China (35.0° N, 109.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 122.0° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Dongzhuang Formation (TaoQiPo Group), Pusgillian (449.5 - 449.2 Ma)

• Upper middle part of TaoQiPo Group; PJW: Given Chen et al. (2022: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 231:105211), this should be the Dongzhuang formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, black, gray, calcareous limestone and lime mudstone

• lagoonal
• dark gray and grayish black limestone interbedded with black calcareous shale and limestone

Size class: macrofossils

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 8538: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.08.2000, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Dendrograptidae
Dendrograptus sp.
Dendrograptus sp. Hall 1858 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
Orthograptus sp., Diplograptus sp.
Orthograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
Diplograptus sp. graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dicranograptidae
Dicellograptus sp.
Dicellograptus sp. Hopkinson 1871 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
Glyptograptus sp.
Glyptograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
Idiospira sp.
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Eospirigerina sp.
Eospirigerina sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1930
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Plectatrypa sp.
Plectatrypa sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1930
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Leptellina sp.
Leptellina sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Tropidodiscus sp.
Tropidodiscus sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira sp.
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Eotomariidae indet.
Eotomariidae indet. Wenz 1938 snail
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites sp.
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail
 Euomphalina - Helicotomidae
Helicotoma sp.
Helicotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail
 Euomphalina - Lesueurillidae
Pararaphistoma sp.
Pararaphistoma sp. Vostokova 1955 snail
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx sp.
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp.
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Taeniolitidae
Wormsipora sp.
Wormsipora sp. Sokolov 1955 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Plasmoporellidae
Plasmoporella sp.
Plasmoporella sp. Kiaer 1899 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora sp.
Catenipora sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral