Where: China (29.0° N, 107.1° E: paleocoordinates 8.2° N, 127.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Shihniulan Formation, Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)
• Late Aeronian
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; wackestone and packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. Wang, Y. Li, S. Kershaw and X. Deng. 2014. Global reef recovery after the end-Ordovician extinction: evidence from late Aeronian coral–stromatoporoid reefs in South China. Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar 136(1):286-289 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 164269: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.11.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Crinoidea | |
Petalocrinus sp., "Spriocrinus sp." = Spirocrinus
Petalocrinus sp. Weller and Davidson 1896 Sea lily
"Spriocrinus sp." = Spirocrinus Mu and Wu 1974 Sea lily | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. lamp shell | |
Cephalopoda | |
Nautiloidea indet. nautiloid | |
Gastropoda | |
Hormotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail | |
Trilobita | |
Latiproetus sp. Lu 1962 trilobite | |
Coronocephalus sp. Grabau 1924 trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Microplasma sp. Dybowski 1873 horn coral
Mackenziephyllum sp. Pedder 1971 horn coral
Cystiphyllum sp. Lonsdale 1839 horn coral | |
Aphyllum sp. Soshkina 1937 horn coral
Tryplasma sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral | |
Rhizophyllum sp. Lindström 1866 horn coral | |
Paraceriaster sp. He 1980 horn coral | |
Ceriaster sp. Lindström 1883 horn coral
Stauria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral
Parastauria sp. He and Lee 1974 horn coral | |
Crassilasma sp. Ivanovskiy 1962 horn coral | |
Tabularia sp. Soshkina 1937 horn coral
Dentilasma sp. Ivanovskiy 1962 horn coral | |
Entelophyllum sp. Wedekind 1927 horn coral | |
Mesofavosites sp. Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
Paleofavosites sp. Twenhofel 1914 tabulate coral
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Cladopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral | |
Coenites sp. Eichwald 1829 tabulate coral | |
Troedssonites sp. Sokolov 1947 tabulate coral | |
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral | |
Halysites sp. von Waldheim 1813 tabulate coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Clathrodictyon sp. Nicholson and Murie 1878 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Pleostylostroma sp. Wang 1982 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Labechia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877 |