20 km southeast of Ejina Qi, Badain Jaran Desert (Devonian of China)

Where: Nei Mongol, China (41.8° N, 101.5° E: paleocoordinates 30.6° S, 107.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zhusileng Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• Pandorinella steinhorneneis steinhornensis is known from the middle part of the in Polygnathus gronbergi conodont Zone and the middle part of Polynathus serotinus Zone in Europe

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NIGPAS

• Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Science (NIGP).

Primary reference: H.Z. Pan and A. G. Cook. 2003. Early Devonian gastropods from Zhusilenghaierhan region, Western Inner Mongolia, China. Journal of Paleontology 77(1):31-43 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49135: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 09.04.2005, edited by John Alroy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras (Platyceras) sp. Conrad 1840 snail
 Euomphalina - Pseudophoridae
Scalaetrochus sinensis n. sp. Pan and Cook 2003 snail
type locality
Taemasotrochus nodosa n. sp. Pan and Cook 2003 snail
type locality
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Euomphalidae indet. White 1877 snail
 Euomphalina - Omphalocirridae
? Omphalocirrus sp. de Ryckholt 1860 snail
 Euomphalina -
? Kitikamispira sp. Kase and Nishida 1988 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Retispira cf. sullivani, "Pseudopharkidonotus sinensis n. gen. n. sp." = Teutonophon sinensis
Retispira cf. sullivani Blodgett 1992 snail
"Pseudopharkidonotus sinensis n. gen. n. sp." = Teutonophon sinensis Pan and Cook 2003 snail
type locality
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Neimongolidiscus circumumbilicus n. gen. n. sp. Pan and Cook 2003 snail
type locality
 Caenogastropoda - Goniasmatidae
? Goniasma sp. Tomlin 1930 snail
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
Murchisonia (Murchisonia) sp. d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841 snail
Mesocoelia sp. Perner 1907 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Gyronematinae indet. Knight 1956 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail
 Murchisoniina - Portlockiellidae
Portlockiellidae indet. Batten 1956 snail
 Murchisoniina - Luciellidae
Zhusilengospira turbiniformis n. gen. n. sp. Pan and Cook 2003 snail
type locality
Zhusilengospira compactum n. sp. Pan and Cook 2003 snail
type locality
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Nodulispira danmianshanensis n. gen. n. sp. Pan and Cook 2003 snail
type locality