Upper Keketiekedaban Group at Keketiekedaban, Luntai County, Xinjiang Province (Silurian to of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (41.8° N, 84.2° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° S, 106.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Keketiekedaban Group, Wenlock to Wenlock (433.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• Except where otherwise stated, ref. 7624 uses Lower Silurian as equivalent to Llandovery, Middle Silurian as equivalent to Wenlock, and Upper Silurian as equivalent to Ludlow plus Pridoli.

Environment/lithology: marine; volcaniclastic siliciclastic sediments and limestone

• Correlation chart indicates BA 3 position.
• "The upper part consists of volcanogenic strata with a few limestone interbeds that yield some corals, and has a thickness of 3289 m. the top of the unit is cut off by a fault...A shelly fauna, however, has been found in a nearby section, and includes [list]."

Primary reference: E.-z. Mu, A. J. Boucot, X. Chen and J.-y. Rong. 1986. Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China. In A. J. Boucot and W. B. N. Berry (eds.), Geological Society of America Special Paper 202:1-80 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27767: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.01.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
? Heliolites sp.
? Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp.
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp.
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Disphyllum sp.
Disphyllum sp. Fromentel 1861 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Cystiphyllum sp.
Cystiphyllum sp. Lonsdale 1839 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
? Tryplasma sp.
? Tryplasma sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Idiostromatidae
Idiostroma sp.
Idiostroma sp. Winchell 1867 stromatoporoid sponge
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Gypidula integra
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
"Conchidium knighti" = Kirkidium knighti, Pentamerus sp.
"Conchidium knighti" = Kirkidium knighti Sowerby 1813
Pentamerus sp. Sowerby 1813
 Pentamerida - Subrianidae
Conchidium sp.
Conchidium sp. Oehlert 1887
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp.
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
Atrypoidea minuta
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia sp.
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893