Jiaodingshan Section: Hirnantian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristellidae
Hindella crassa (Sowerby 1839)
subspecies incipiens
    = Hindella incipiens Williams 1951
Cocks 2014
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella testudinaria (Dalman 1828)
original and current combination Orthis testudinaria
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Draboviidae
Hirnantia sagittifera (McCoy 1851)
Kinnella kielanae (Temple 1965)
synonym of Kinnella medlicotti
[entered as Kinnella keilanae]
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Plectothyrella platystrophoides Temple 1965
synonym of Atrypa crassicostis
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Paromalomena cf. polonica (Temple 1965)
synonym of Paromalomena macmahoni
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Sichuan County:, Hanyuan
Coordinates: 29.3° North, 102.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:12.3° North, 131.1° 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:Nancheng
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: bioclastic limestone, 0.5 m thick
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: brachiopods only; trilobites, gastropods and crinoids reported to be present, but not listed
Metadata
Database number:61387
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, P. Wagner Enterer:U. Merkel, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-06-09 03:07:40 Last modified:2017-04-13 19:07:37
Access level:the public Released:2006-06-09 03:07:40
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]

Secondary references:

62099 L. R. M. Cocks. 2014. The Late Ordovician brachiopods of southern Pembrokeshire and adjacent south-western Wales. Special Papers in Palaeontology 91:1-89 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]