Where: Shaanxi, China (35.0° N, 108.0° E: paleocoordinates 26.7° S, 121.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Unit 3 Member (Nanzheng Formation), Wufeng (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
• Listed as Wufengian Age
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, gray shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: 28 cm thick section; pooled samples
Primary reference: E. Z. Mu. 1988. The Ordovician-Silurian boundary in China. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 43:117-131 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75546: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 16.10.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Scyphozoa | |
Conularia sp. Miller 1820 jellyfish
Metaconularia proteica jellyfish | |
Stenolaemata | |
Hallopora sp. Bassler 1911 | |
Escharopora sp. Hall 1847 | |
Stictopora sp. Hall 1847 | |
Lingulata | |
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Pterobranchia | |
Dictyonema sp. Hall 1851 graptolite | |
"Climacograptus normalis" = Normalograptus normalis
"Climacograptus normalis" = Normalograptus normalis Lapworth 1877 graptolite | |
"Orthograptus cf. abbreviatus" = Rectograptus abbreviatus, Parareteograptus sp., Diplograptus sp., Orthograptus maximus
"Orthograptus cf. abbreviatus" = Rectograptus abbreviatus Elles and Wood 1907 graptolite
Parareteograptus sp. Mu 1974 graptolite
Diplograptus sp. graptolite
Orthograptus maximus graptolite |