D7 - Daping section, sample level 7 (Ordovician of China)

Where: Hubei, China (30.9° N, 111.4° E: paleocoordinates 14.0° N, 139.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Undulograptus austrodentatus graptolite zone, 3 Member (Dawan Formation), Arenigian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; gray, green, yellow, argillaceous, calcareous shale

• Dirty yellow-green or grey-green marly shale intercalated with marl , thin-bedded biocalcilutite and nodular biocalcilutite, with 3 metres of biocalcarenite at the top of the section

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Turvey in 1998-1999

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 116203: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 06.09.2011, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• References focuses on trilobites.
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Raphiophorinae indet. Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Hanchungolithus multiseriatus trilobite
Hanchungolithinae indet.
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
 Asaphida - Hungaiidae
Hungioides sp. Kobayashi 1936 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Agerina elongata Lu 1975 trilobite
 Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Reedocalymeninae indet. Hupe 1955 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae