Yanzikou Section, Bijie, Kuanyinchiao Formation, NW Guizhou: Hirnantian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Dalmantina sp.
Homotoma sp.
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lambelasmatidae
Lambeophyllum sp. Okulitch 1938
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lykophyllidae
Pycnactis sp. Ryder 1926
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Grewingkia sp. Dybowski 1873
Pycnactoides sp. He 1978
Siphonolasma sp. He 1978
Paramplexoides sp. He 1978
Streptelasma sp. Hall 1847
Kenophyllum sp. Dybowski 1873
Brachyelasma sp. Lang et al. 1940
Crassilasma sp. Ivanovskiy 1962
Borelasma sp. Neuman 1969
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristellidae
Hindella sp. Davidson 1882
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Plectothyrella sp. Temple 1965
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Sphenotretidae
Dorytreta sp.
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Eostropheodonta sp. Bancroft 1949
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Fardenia sp. Lamont 1935
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Holopea sp. Hall 1847
? Cirropsis sp. Perner 1903
synonym of Holopea
see common names

Geography
Country:China
Coordinates: 27.6° North, 105.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.4° North, 128.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Hirnantian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Hirnantian
Age range of interval:445.20000 - 443.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kuanyinchiao
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Dalmanella testudinaria-Dorytreta longicrura community
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "carbonate"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: 1.3 m thick
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:61383
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-06-09 01:05:58 Last modified:2006-06-09 04:16:54
Access level:the public Released:2006-06-09 01:05:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17691. Y. Li and S. Kershaw. 2003. Reef Reconstruction after Extinction Events of the Latest Ordovician in the Yangtze Platform, South China. Facies 48:269-284 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]