Where: XinJiang, China (41.0° N, 86.0° E: paleocoordinates 29.6° S, 121.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: QiErQiKe Formation, Llandeilo (461.1 - 458.4 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green, sandy mudstone and argillaceous siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: Y. S. Zhang. 1981. Stratigraphic table of northwestern region of China: XinJiang Province part. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China (Original source resides with A. Miller) [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20810: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 07.06.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Paracybeloides sp. HupƩ 1955 trilobite | |
Ogygites sp. Tromelin and Lebescote 1876 trilobite | |
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
Lonchodomas sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite | |
Gastropoda | |
Ophileta sp. Vanuxem 1842 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847 clam | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Pterobranchia | |
Glyptograptus sp. graptolite | |
Amplexograptus sp. graptolite
Orthograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite |