D6 - Daping section, sample level 6: Arenigian, China
collected by Turvey 1998-1999

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Raphiophorinae indet. Angelin 1854
4 specimens
Ampyx sp. (Dalman 1827)
Turvey and Zhou 2002 3 specimens
original and current combination Asaphus (Ampyx)
Rhombampyx yii (Lu 1965)
Turvey and Zhou 2002 3 specimens
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Yinpanolithus sp. Lu and Chang 1974
Turvey and Zhou 2002 1 specimen
Incaia sp. Whittard 1955
1 specimen
Ningkianolithus welleri
19 specimens
Hanchungolithinae indet.
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Shumardia (Shumardia) sp. Fortey and Owens 1987
1 specimen
Shumardiidae indet.
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Gog yangtzeensis (Lu 1975)
1 specimen
Megalaspides laningensis
20 specimens
Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Hexacopyge nasuta (Lu 1957)
4 specimens
Trilobita - Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus walcotti Endo 1932
2 specimens
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Pseudocalymene sp. Pillet 1974
1 specimen
Agerina elongata Lu 1975
7 specimens
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Ovalocephalus primitivus
8 specimens
Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Metagnostidae indet. Jaekel 1909
15 specimens
Geragnostus (Geragnosiella) lenhsiangensis
Turvey and Zhou 2002 10 specimens
? Geragnostus (Geragnostus) carinatus
Turvey and Zhou 2002 1 specimen
unclassified
Neseuretus intermedius Lu 1975
Turvey and Zhou 2002 2 specimens
recombined as Aristocalymene intermedia
was 2 Reedocalymeninae indet.
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
Age range of interval:477.70000 - 468.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dawan
Local section:Daping Local bed:6
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
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:116202
Authorizer:A. Miller, P. Wagner Enterer:S. Kolbe, P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-09-06 05:52:49 Last modified:2011-09-05 15:52:49
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-06 05:52:49
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]