D3 - Daping section, sample level 3: Arenigian, China
collected by Turvey 1998-1999

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Agerina elongata Lu 1975
Turvey and Zhou 2002 3 specimens
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Ningkianolithus welleri
2 specimens
Hanchungolithinae indet.
Yinpanolithus sp. Lu and Chang 1974
Turvey and Zhou 2002 2 specimens
Trilobita - Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus walcotti Endo 1932
5 specimens
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Megalaspides taningensis (Weller 1907)
Turvey and Zhou 2002 3 specimens
recombined as Liomegalaspides taningensis
Liomegalaspides blackwelderi (Weller 1907)
8 specimens
Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Trinodus hupehensis
Turvey and Zhou 2002 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Hubei
Coordinates: 30.9° North, 111.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.0° North, 139.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
Key time interval:Arenigian Conodont zone: Paroistodus originalis
Age range of interval:477.70000 - 468.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dawan Member:2
Local section:Daping Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: It belongs to the cephalopod Protocycloceras deprati Zone or the conodont Paroistodus originalis Zone (Lindst rÊm et al . , 1991
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:nodular,red lignite
Lithology description: Chiefly purplish-red thin to medium-bedded biocalcilutite , intercalated with nodular biocalcilutite and biocalcarenite , 7. 6 met res thick.
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Turvey Collection dates:1998-1999
Taxonomic list comments:References focuses on trilobites.
Metadata
Database number:116199
Authorizer:A. Miller, P. Wagner Enterer:S. Kolbe, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-09-06 05:52:10 Last modified:2018-04-26 19:57:24
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-06 05:52:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

37454. S. T. Turvey. 2005. Early Ordovician (Arenig) trilobite palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of the South China Plate. Palaeontology 48(3):519-547 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]

Secondary references:

65550 S. T. Turvey and Z. Y. Zhou. 2002. Arenig trilobite associations of Daping, Yichang, Hubei, South China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 41(1):10-18 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]