Zs4: Gisbornian - Eastonian, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Conodonta
- Prioniodontida
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Aphelognathus sp.
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Phragmodus undatus
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Conodonta
- Panderodontida
- Panderodontidae
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Panderodus sp.
Ethington 1959
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Belodina compressa
(Branson and Mehl 1933)
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Basilicus (Basiliella) sp.
(Kobayashi 1934)
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Geography
| Country: | China |
| Coordinates: | 41.7° North, 102.6° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 22.3° South, 130.4° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| Key time interval: | Gisbornian - Eastonian | Conodont zone: | Phragmodus undatus |
| Age range of interval: | 458.40000 - 449.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Badainjaran | ||||
| Local section: | outcrop 1 section | Local bed: | 104 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: sampled from unit 7 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified sandy "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Greyish-purple, thin-bedded, calcareous siltstones and fine-graned sublitharenite, intercalated with thin-bedded, sandy bioclastic limestone near the top. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | NIGPAS |
| Taxonomic list comments:Also contains brachiopods and corals. An Taixiang identified the conodonts. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 187885 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Hopkins | Enterer: | M. Hopkins |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-08-15 13:43:31 | Last modified: | 2021-05-05 22:18:25 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-08-15 13:43:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 63045. | Z. Q. Zhou and Z. Y. Zhou. 2006. Late Ordovician trilobites from the Zhusilenghaierhan area, Ejin Banner, western Inner Mongolia, China. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 32:383-411 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins] |