Also known as QuLiTag Fm., YinGan, KePin Co., XinJiang Prov., China
Where: XinJiang, China (41.0° N, 79.0° E: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 121.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Yinshan Formation (Qiulitag Group), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)
• PJW: Arenig-aged formation in Qiulitag (QuLiTag) Group is Yinshan formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, gray, argillaceous, cherty/siliceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
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 20806: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 07.06.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
Aphetoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 | |
Richardsonoceras sp. Foerste 1932 | |
Ellesmeroceras sp. Foerste 1921
Muriceras sp. Flower 1964 | |
Stereoplasmoceras sp. Grabau 1922 | |
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932 | |
Dideroceras sp. Flower 1950
Endoceras sp. Hall 1847
Chisiloceras sp. Gortani 1934
Vaginoceras sp. Hyatt 1884
Cameroceras sp. Conrad 1842 | |
Plectoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 | |
Gastropoda | |
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail | |
Ecculiomphalus sp. Portlock 1843 snail | |
Trilobita | |
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Nileus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
"Eosoptychopyge sp." = Zhenganites, Ptychopyge sp.
"Eosoptychopyge sp." = Zhenganites Yin 1978 trilobite
Ptychopyge sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite | |
Lonchodomas sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite | |
Reedocalymene sp. Kobayashi 1951 trilobite | |
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus Koroleva 1959 trilobite | |
Sphaeronites sp. Hisinger 1828 |