Huangnitang section. CH8: Sandbian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Conodonta
Costiconus ethingtoni (Fåhræus 1966)
5 elements
Conodonta - Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Drepanoistodus ? suberectus (Branson and Mehl 1933)
2 elements
Conodonta - Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Protopanderodus cooperi
4 elements
Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Chirognathidae
Spinodus spinatus
1 element
Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Baltoniodus sp. Lindstrom 1971
4 elements
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Zhejiang
Coordinates: 28.9° North, 118.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.5° North, 127.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Sandbian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4
Key time interval:Sandbian Graptolite zone: Nemagraptus gracilis
Age range of interval:458.40000 - 453.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Yenwashan
Regional section:Formation Regional bed:2 m
Regional order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lowest part of formation; overlies Hulo formation; underlies Huangnekang formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:nodular argillaceous "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: nodular argillaceous limestone
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:203715
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2019-08-22 10:29:16 Last modified:2019-08-22 11:30:50
Access level:the public Released:2019-08-22 10:29:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
69824. Z. Zhen, Y. Zhang, and I. G. Percival. 2009. Early Sandbian (Late Ordovician) conodonts from the Yenwashan Formation, western Zhejiang, South China. Alcheringa 33(2):133-161 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]