20 km southeast of Ejina Qi, Badain Jaran Desert: Emsian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Pseudopharkidonotus sinensis n. gen., n. sp. Pan and Cook 2003
3 specimens
recombined as Teutonophon sinensis
type locality
Bucanopsis sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897
1 specimen
    = Retispira cf. sullivani Blodgett 1992
Wagner 2023
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Neimongolidiscus circumumbilicus n. gen., n. sp. Pan and Cook 2003
3 specimens
type locality
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras (Platyceras) sp. Conrad 1840
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Pseudophoridae
Scalaetrochus sinensis n. sp. Pan and Cook 2003
1 specimen
type locality
Taemasotrochus nodosa n. sp. Pan and Cook 2003
1 specimen
type locality
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Omphalocirridae
? Omphalocirrus sp. de Ryckholt 1860
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Straparollus (Euomphalus) sp. de Montfort 1810
1 specimen
    = Euomphalidae indet. White 1877
Wagner 2023
Gastropoda - Euomphalina
? Kitikamispira sp. Kase and Nishida 1988
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Goniasmatidae
? Goniasma sp. Tomlin 1930
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Luciellidae
Zhusilengospira compactum n. sp. Pan and Cook 2003
5 specimens
type locality
Zhusilengospira turbiniformis n. gen., n. sp. Pan and Cook 2003
4 specimens
type locality
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Portlockiellidae
Portlockiellidae indet. Batten 1956
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Nodulispira danmianshanensis n. gen., n. sp. Pan and Cook 2003
8 specimens
type locality
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
Mesocoelia sp. (Perner 1907)
2 specimens
Murchisonia (Murchisonia) sp. d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Gyronematinae indet. Knight 1956
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Nei Mongol County:Zhusilenghaierhan
Coordinates: 41.8° North, 101.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.6° South, 107.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Early/Lower Devonian
Stage:Emsian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 2
Key time interval:Emsian
Age range of interval:407.60000 - 393.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Zhusileng
Stratigraphic resolution:group
Stratigraphy comments: Pandorinella steinhorneneis steinhornensis is known from the middle part of the in Polygnathus gronbergi conodont Zone and the middle part of Polynathus serotinus Zone in Europe
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,some microfossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:NIGPAS
Collection method comments: Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Science (NIGP).
Metadata
Database number:49135
Authorizer:P. Wagner, J. Alroy Enterer:P. Wagner, J. Alroy
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-04-09 19:47:23 Last modified:2005-04-09 22:49:39
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-09 19:47:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12088. H.Z. Pan and A. G. Cook. 2003. Early Devonian gastropods from Zhusilenghaierhan region, Western Inner Mongolia, China. Journal of Paleontology 77(1):31-43 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

7309 J. G. Johnson. 1975. Late Early Devonian brachiopods from the Disappointment Bay Formation, Lowther Island, Arctic Canada. Journal of Paleontology 49(6):947-978 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]
9042 P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]