Upper section, TaoQiPo Group, TaoQiPo, Yao Co., Shaan'Xi Prov., China (Ordovician to of China)

Where: Shaanxi, China (35.0° N, 109.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 122.0° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cautleyan to Cautleyan (449.2 - 445.2 Ma)

• TaoQiPo Group

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, black, gray, argillaceous, calcareous limestone and shale

• Shallow water, lagoon
• grayish black and gray limestone interbedded with black calcitic shale and muddy limestone

Primary reference: Y. S. Zhang. 1983. Stratigraphic table of northwestern region of China: ShaanXi Province part. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China 12-28 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8537: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.08.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Yaoxianoceras sp.
Cephalopoda
 Discosorida - Cyrtogomphoceratidae
Kiaeroceras sp.
Kiaeroceras sp. Strand 1934
 Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
Lyckholmoceras sp.
Lyckholmoceras sp. Teichert 1930
 Oncocerida - Oncoceratidae
Rizoceras sp., Beloitoceras sp.
Rizoceras sp. Hyatt 1884
Beloitoceras sp. Foerste 1924
 Dissidocerida - Geisonoceratidae
Temperoceras sp.
Temperoceras sp. Barskov 1960
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Gorbyoceras sp.
Gorbyoceras sp. Shimizu and Obata 1935
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Taeniolitidae
Taeniolites sp.
Taeniolites sp. Bondarenko 1961 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Proporidae
Propora sp.
Propora sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Cyathophylloides sp.
Cyathophylloides sp. Dybowski 1873 horn coral