Donggongsi Horizon 3: Caradoc, China
collected by Gongzheng Yin, Ronald P. Tripp, Zhiyi Zhoum Zhiqiang Zhou, Wenwei Yuan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Agnostida
- Metagnostidae
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Arthrorhachis sp.
Hawle and Corda 1847
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Pliomeridae
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Ovalocephalus yangtzeensis
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Ovalocephalus ovatus
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Cheiruridae
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Hadromeros cf. xiushanensis
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Sphaerexochus fibrisulcatus
Lu 1975
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Trilobita
- Proetida
- Telephinidae
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Telephina cf. convexa
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Trilobita
- Proetida
- Tropidocoryphidae
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Stenoblepharum cf. dactylum
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Styginidae
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Cekovia striata
Ji 1986
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Kosovopeltis sp.
Snajdr 1958
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Paraphillipsinella nanjiangensis
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Panderiidae
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Panderia orbiculata
Ji 1986
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenidae
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Parillaenus orbiconvexus
(Ji 1986)
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Remopleurididae
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Dislobosaspis zunyiensis
(Yin 1978)
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Dislobosaspis guizhouensis
(Yin 1978)
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Nileidae
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Nileus sp.
Dalman 1827
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Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Guizhou |
| Coordinates: | 27.8° North, 106.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 13.5° North, 131.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 4-5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Caradoc | ||
| Age range of interval: | 458.40000 - 449.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Pagoda |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified lime mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Light-purple, medium- to thick-bedded shrinkage biocalcilutites | |
| Environment: | offshore shelf |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collectors: | Gongzheng Yin, Ronald P. Tripp, Zhiyi Zhoum Zhiqiang Zhou, Wenwei Yuan |
Metadata
| Database number: | 182198 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Hopkins | Enterer: | M. Hopkins | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-10-13 11:26:01 | Last modified: | 2016-10-13 11:26:01 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-10-13 11:26:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 60589. | G. Yin, R. P. Tripp, Z. Zhou, Z. Zhou, and W. Yuan. 1999. Trilobites and biofacies of the Ordovician Pagoda Formation, Donggongsi of Zunyi, Guizhou Province, China. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 90:203-220 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins] |