Sanaegol locality - SN712 (Ordovician of South Korea)

Also known as near Taebaeg (Taebaek), Taebaeksan Basin

Where: Kangweondo (Gangwon-do), South Korea (37.1° N, 128.9° E: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 136.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maggol Formation (Taebaek Group), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• Bed 712 is in the middle part of the Maggol Fm., about 127 m below base of Jigunsan Fm. (Yun, 1999 fig. 2). The Maggol Formation is a subunit of the Taebaek Group and is largely Arenigian in age (see Kwon, 2005, Geosci. J. 9(4)).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; bioturbated limestone

• "Based on sedimentary structures such as desiccation cracks, ripple marks, bird's-eye structures, and bioturbation, Paik (1985, 1987, 1988) suggested tidal flats as the depositional environments of the Maggol Formation." (Yun, 1999). According to Woo (1999, Geosci. J. 3(3)) bioturbated limestones represent the subtidal to lowermost intertidal facies within the peritidal shallowing-upward cycles of the Maggol Fm.
• "Lithologic components of the formation consist of bioturbated limestone, well bedded limestone and bioclastic limestone with frequent intercalations of dolomite and dolomitic limestone. Flat pebble conglomerates are included in the lower part of the formation, but they were not observed in the section examined." (Yun, 1999). The lithology of bed 712 is "bioturbated limestone" according to stratigraphic log in fig. 2 in Yun (1999).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, recrystallized, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: KPE = Department of Earth Science, Teachers College, Kyungpook National University, Taegu, South Korea

Primary reference: C.-S. Yun. 1999. Ordovician cephalopods from the Maggol Formation of Korea. Paleontological Research 3(3):202-221 [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89513: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 27.05.2009

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Bisonocerida - Manchuroceratidae
Manchuroceras cf. wolungense
KPE 20073 (partial isolated siphuncle)
 Actinocerida - Wutinoceratidae
Wutinoceras robustum
KPE 20206, 20207