Daping section, Fenxiang, sample CF1 (Ordovician of China)

Where: Hubei, China (30.9° N, 111.4° E: paleocoordinates 16.6° N, 143.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fenxiang Formation, Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• 25.62 m above the base

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• bioclastic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: F. S. Xia, S. G. Zhang, and Z. Z. Wang. 2007. The oldest bryozoans: new evidence from the Late Tremadocian (Early Ordovician) of East Yangtze Gorges in China. Journal of Paleontology 81(6):1308-1326 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99748: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
Orbiramus ovalis n. sp., Orbiramus normalis n. gen. n. sp.
Orbiramus ovalis n. sp. Xia et al. 2007
Orbiramus normalis n. gen. n. sp. Xia et al. 2007