Bed 4, Mongkelu locality, Wutubulake Fm., Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China (Silurian of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (46.8° N, 66.6° E: paleocoordinates 11.1° S, 67.2° E)

When: bouceki/bandeletovi zone zone, Wutubulake Formation (Hoboksar Group), Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• originally considered to be Devonian (Gedinnian) but reported as top of Pridoli in Cai, Dou & Edwards, 1993.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, yellow, calcareous sandstone and poorly lithified, pebbly sandstone

• On Kazakhstan plate but near the suture between the Siberian and Kazakhstan plates. Depositional environment could have been shallow shelf (Rong & Chen, 1992) or low energy, dysaerobic trough with distal turbidites. Diversity of faunas and facies may indicate offshore transport of sediments during storm disturbance of shelf environments.
• Yellow-brown clacareous and tuffaceous fine-grained sandstone intercalated with sandstone containing pebbles and lenticular bioclastic limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, permineralized, coalified, original carbon, original sporopollenin, replaced with limonite

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical

Primary reference: Y. W. Dou and Z. H. Sun. 1983. Devonian Plants. Palaeontological Atlas of Xinjiang, Vol. II. Late Palaeozoic Section. Geological Publishing House, Beijing [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10931: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 05.07.2001, edited by Pat Gensel and Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

• Invertebrate fossils are merely mentioned in Cai, Dou & Edwards' 1993 paper and not described.
unclassified
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Zosterophyllum
  -
Zosterophyllum sp. Penhallow 1892
H-branching
Parka
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Parka indet. Fleming 1857
Parka "indet. 2"2 Fleming 1857
Zosterophyllopsida
 Cooksoniales -
"Cooksonella sphaerica" = Eocooksonia1
"Cooksonella sphaerica" = Eocooksonia1
Hostinella
  -
Hostinella sp.2 Barrande 1882
cf. Hostinella sp.1 Barrande 1882
H-branching
Psilophytites
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Psilophytites sp.2 Hoeg 1952
Hepaticae
  -
Thallites indet.2 Walton 1925 liverwort
Retusotriletes
  -
Protozoa
  -
Algites
  -
Algites indet.2 Seward 1894
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
? Syringaxon sp.1 Lindström 1882 horn coral
coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp.1 Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
coral
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Mytilus" cf. beyrichi4 mussel
bivalve
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Machaerariidae
Ferganella sp.1 Nikiforova 1937
brachiopod
 Atrypida -
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella sp.1 Kozlowski 1946
brachiopod
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
? Warburgella abnormis3 Xiang and Zhang 1983 trilobite
trilobite
Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Dictyonema sp.1 Hall 1851 graptolite
 Graptoloidea -
Pseudomonoclimacis bandelotovi1 graptolite
graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Monograptus anerosus1 graptolite
graptolite
? Monograptus ? pridoliensis1 graptolite
graptolite
Monograptus mironovi1 graptolite
graptolite