Lower middle section, TaoQiPo Group, TaoQiPo, Yao Co., Shaan'Xi Prov., China (Ordovician to of China)

Where: Shaanxi, China (35.0° N, 109.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.3° S, 123.8° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Taoqipo Formation, Actonian to Actonian (454.0 - 449.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, gray limestone and shale

• dark gray limestone with some shale

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 8539: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.08.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Plasmoporellidae
Plasmoporella sp., Neowormsipora sp.
Plasmoporella sp. Kiaer 1899 tabulate coral
Neowormsipora sp. Lin and Chow 1977 tabulate coral
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Eospirigerina sp., "Ovalospira sp." = Sulcatospira
Eospirigerina sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1930
"Ovalospira sp." = Sulcatospira
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Rhynchotrema sp.
Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp.
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
Cephalopoda
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Kotoceras sp.
Kotoceras sp. Kobayashi 1934
 Oncocerida - Oncoceratidae
Rizoceras sp.
Rizoceras sp. Hyatt 1884
 Tarphycerida - Trocholitidae
Discoceras sp.
Discoceras sp. Barrande 1867
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira sp.
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pliomerina sp.
Pliomerina sp. Chugaeva 1956 trilobite