AFA 434. Ludiping: Hirnantian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristellidae
Hindella crassa (Sowerby 1839)
Hindella crassa incipiens
    = Hindella incipiens Williams 1951
Cocks 2014
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Draboviidae
Hirnantia cf. sagittifera (McCoy 1851)
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella testudinaria (Dalman 1828)
original and current combination Orthis testudinaria
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida
Pentameroidea informal indet
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Plectothyrella crassicosta (Dalman 1828)
Atrypa crassicostis
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Eostropheodonta parvicostellata Rong 1984
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena trifidum (Marek and Havlíček 1967)
recombined as Leptaena (Leptaena) trifidum
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Fardenia cf. modica Rong and Li 1999
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Cliftonia sp. Foerste 1909
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Holopea sp. Hall 1847
Trilobita - Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanitina sp. Reed 1905
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guizhou County:Songtao
Coordinates: 28.2° North, 109.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.3° North, 126.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Hirnantian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Hirnantian Graptolite zone: Normalograptus extraordinarius
Age range of interval:445.20000 - 443.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kuanyinchiao
Local section:Ludiping Local bed:100 cm
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray argillaceous,calcareous mudstone
Lithology description: The lower-middle parts are composed of dark grey argillaceous limestone
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Size sorting:poor
Fragmentation:none
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Figure 4
Metadata
Database number:153004
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-12-04 22:47:03 Last modified:2013-12-05 08:41:53
Access level:the public Released:2013-12-04 22:47:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

49302. J.-Y. Rong, X. Chen, and D. A. T. Harper. 2002. The latest Ordovician Hirnantia Fauna (Brachiopoda) in time and space. Lethaia 35:231-249 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

62099 L. R. M. Cocks. 2014. The Late Ordovician brachiopods of southern Pembrokeshire and adjacent south-western Wales. Special Papers in Palaeontology 91:1-89 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]