M2 - Maocaopu section, sample level 2 (Ordovician of China)

Where: Hunan, China (29.3° N, 111.3° E: paleocoordinates 15.0° N, 138.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Zitai Formation, Arenigian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Turvey in 1998-1999

Primary reference: S. T. Turvey. 2005. Early Ordovician (Arenig) trilobite palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of the South China Plate. Palaeontology 48(3):519-547 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 116212: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 06.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

• References focuses on trilobites.
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Trilobita
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus sp.
Nileus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Leiostegiidae indet.
Leiostegiidae indet. Bradley 1925 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenidae indet.
Illaenidae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Encrinurella sp., Ovalocephalus sp.
Encrinurella sp. Reed 1915 trilobite
Ovalocephalus sp. Koroleva 1959 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Diplagnostidae indet.
Diplagnostidae indet. Whitehouse 1936
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Metagnostidae indet.