D5 - Daping section, sample level 5: Arenigian, China
collected by Turvey 1998-1999

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Agerina elongata Lu 1975
3 specimens
Trilobita - Proetida - Telephinidae
Carolinites genacinaca Ross 1951
Turvey and Zhou 2002 3 specimens
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Ovalocephalus primitivus
2 specimens
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Raphiophorinae indet. Angelin 1854
10 specimens
Rhombampyx yii (Lu 1965)
Turvey and Zhou 2002 3 specimens
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Hanchungolithinae indet. Lu 1963
5 specimens
Ningkianolithus welleri
Turvey and Zhou 2002 3 specimens
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Megalaspides laningensis
1 specimen
Gog yangtzeensis (Lu 1975)
3 specimens
Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Hexacopyge nasuta (Lu 1957)
2 specimens
Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Metagnostidae indet. Jaekel 1909
5 specimens
Was 8
Trinodus hupehensis
Turvey and Zhou 2002 3 specimens
Geragnostus (Geragnosiella) lenhsiangensis
Turvey and Zhou 2002 2 specimens
Geragnostus (Geragnostus) sp. Howell 1935
Turvey and Zhou 2002 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Hubei
Coordinates: 30.9° North, 111.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.0° North, 139.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
Key time interval:Arenigian Graptolite zone: Undulograptus sinodentatus
Age range of interval:477.70000 - 468.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dawan Member:3
Local section:Daping Local bed:5
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: According to the graptolite biostratigraphy of Lindström et al. (1991), the shales of the lower 6 met re interval represent the Undulograptus sinodentatus Zone , and horizons upsection of this the U. austrodentatus Zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:nodular,gray,green,yellow argillaceous,calcareous "shale"
Lithology description: Dirty yellow-green or grey-green marly shale intercalated with marl , thin-bedded biocalcilutite and nodular biocalcilutite, with 3 metres of biocalcarenite at the top of the section.
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:116201
Authorizer:A. Miller, P. Wagner Enterer:S. Kolbe, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-09-06 05:52:36 Last modified:2018-04-26 22:01:06
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-06 05:52:36
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:

65550 S. T. Turvey and Z. Y. Zhou. 2002. Arenig trilobite associations of Daping, Yichang, Hubei, South China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 41(1):10-18 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]