YT 9. Tashan: Ashgill, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella sinensis Wang and Jin 1964
2 specimens
recombined as Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sinensis
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Ovalospira dichotoma Fu 1982
49 specimens
recombined as Schachriomonia dichotoma
Antizygospira liquanensis Fu 1982
91 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Sphenotretidae
Altaethyrella zhejiangensis Wang 1964
423 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Jiangxi
Coordinates: 28.6° North, 118.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.0° North, 124.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Ashgill Graptolite zone: Diceratograptus mirus
Age range of interval:449.60000 - 443.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Xiazhen
Local section:Tashan Local bed:110 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Assumed to be 3/4ths between YT3 & YT7
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified siltstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:186265
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-06-18 23:27:37 Last modified:2017-06-18 23:27:37
Access level:the public Released:2017-06-18 23:27:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
62464. R.-b. Zhan, J.-y. Rong, J. Jin and L.R.M. Cocks. 2002. Late Ordovician brachiopod communities of southeast China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39:445-468 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]