Lower section, TaoQiPo Group, TaoQiPo, Yao Co., Shaan'Xi Prov., China (Ordovician to of China)

Where: Shaanxi, China (35.0° N, 109.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.6° S, 124.5° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Taoqipo Formation, Soudleyan to Soudleyan (458.4 - 454.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• gray limestone with abundant fossils

Primary reference: Y. S. Zhang. 1983. Stratigraphic table of northwestern region of China: ShaanXi Province part. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China 12-28 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8540: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.08.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Protostromatoceras sp., Taoqipoceras sp., Westenoceras sp.
Cephalopoda
 Oncocerida - Oncoceratidae
Rizoceras sp., Beloitoceras sp.
Rizoceras sp. Hyatt 1884
Beloitoceras sp. Foerste 1924
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Tofangoceras sp.
Tofangoceras sp. Kobayashi 1927
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Sinoceras sp.
Sinoceras sp. Shimizu et al. 1935
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
"Hallina sp." = Anazyga
"Hallina sp." = Anazyga Davidson 1882
 Pentamerida - Parallelelasmatidae
Didymelasma sp.
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Bicuspina sp.
Bicuspina sp. Havlicek 1950
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Gunnarella sp.
Gunnarella sp. Spjeldnaes 1957
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae
Christiania sp.
Christiania sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
Favositella sp.
Favositella sp. Etheridge and Foord 1884
Conodonta
 Prioniodontida -
Aphelognathus sp., Chirognathus sp., "Erismodus sp." = Erismodus, "Microcoelodus sp." = Erismodus
"Erismodus sp." = Erismodus conodont
"Microcoelodus sp." = Erismodus conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
Plectodina sp.
 Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
Cordylodus sp.
Cordylodus sp. Pander 1856 conodont
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus sp.
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont
Anthozoa
 Lichenariida - Lichenariidae
Lichenaria sp.
Lichenaria sp. Winchell and Schuchert 1895 tabulate coral
 Tabulata -
Yaoxianopora sp.
Yaoxianopora sp. Lin 1982 tabulate coral
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Tryplasma sp.
Tryplasma sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral