Where: Malaysia (6.4° N, 99.9° E: paleocoordinates 23.7° N, 133.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Normalograptus persculptus graptolite zone, Tanjong Dendang Formation, Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)
• Lower Detrital Band. Cocks et al. (2005) note that this is Hirnantian, not Silurian.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. Kobayashi, C. R. Jones, and T. Hamada. 1964. On the Lower Silurian shelly fauna in the Langkawi Islands, Northwest Malaya. Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography 35(1):73-80 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 73357: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
? Megalomphala sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Strophomenata | |
Plectambonitoidea indet. Jones 1928 | |
Hyolitha | |
Hyolithida indet. Mathew 1962 | |
Trilobita | |
? Stenopareia sp. Holm 1886 trilobite | |
"Dalmanitina malayensis" = Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus
"Dalmanitina malayensis" = Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus Brongniart 1822 trilobite | |
Pterobranchia | |
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid |