H - Hougou: Arenigian, China
collected by Turvey 1998-1999

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Agerina sp. Tjernvik 1956
Turvey and Zhou 2004 9 specimens
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus shensiensis (Lu 1957)
Turvey and Zhou 2004 7 specimens
Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Sinocybele grandispina
Turvey and Zhou 2004 10 specimens
pl. 1
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Hanchungolithinae indet. Lu 1963
Turvey and Zhou 2004 45 specimens
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Ningkianites insculpta
Turvey and Zhou 2004 2 specimens
Liomegalaspides sp. Lu and Chang 1974
Turvey and Zhou 2004 23 specimens
Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Hexacopyge nasuta (Lu 1957)
Turvey and Zhou 2004 22 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Shaanxi
Coordinates: 33.1° North, 106.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.5° North, 144.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
Key time interval:Arenigian
Age range of interval:477.70000 - 468.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Siliangssu
Stratigraphy comments: Sampled from a single horizon.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified calcareous "shale"
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Turvey Collection dates:1998-1999
Taxonomic list comments:References focuses on trilobites.
Metadata
Database number:116178
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:S. Kolbe
Modifier:S. Kolbe Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-09-06 05:30:04 Last modified:2011-09-05 15:50:49
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-06 05:30:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

37454. S. T. Turvey. 2005. Early Ordovician (Arenig) trilobite palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of the South China Plate. Palaeontology 48(3):519-547 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]

Secondary references:

65575 S. T. Turvey and Z. Zhou. 2004. Arenig trilobite associations and faunal changes in Southern Shaanxi, China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 23:91-103 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]