Sample TA118, Tangbale district, Kekesayi terrane: Llandeilo, China
collected by Buckman & Aitchison

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa - Albaillellaria - Ceratoikiscidae
Protoceratoikiscum clarksoni Danelian and Floyd 2001
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Inaniguttidae
Inaniguttidae indet. Nazarov and Ormiston 1984
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Xinjiang
Coordinates: 45.1° North, 83.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.7° South, 77.4° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Middle Ordovician
Stage:Darriwilian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 3
Key time interval:Llandeilo
Age range of interval:461.30000 - 458.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From cherts of the Kekesayi terrane, which overlie basaltic hydroclastite, and are overlain by tuff and clastic material. AGE: Llandeilo, on the basis of conodont biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From sample T118, near middle of section, at 9-12 m in text-fig. 3 of Buckman & Aitchison (2001).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red lithified chert
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Red, ribbon-bedded radiolarian chert. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description and sample preparation techniques.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,hydroflouric,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Buckman & Aitchison
Collection method comments: COLLECTION METHODS: Processed using standard hydrofluoric extraction techniques. COLLECTORS: Buckman & Aitchison. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text, but possibly the Department of Earth Science, University of Hong Kong.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Possibly exhaustive for radiolaria, and including condonts. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with apparently modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:90914
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-08-26 10:18:33 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2009-08-26 10:18:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
30588. S. Buckman and J. C. Aitchison. 2001. Middle Ordovician (Llandeilan) Radiolarians from West Junggar, Xinjiang, China. Micropaleontology 47(4):359-367 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]