Yeongwol County, Yeongheung Fm (Ordovician of South Korea)

Where: South Korea (37.2° N, 128.4° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 21.7° N, 81.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yeongheung Formation, Darriwilian (469.4 - 458.2 Ma)

• late Middle Ordovician

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

• labechiid stromatoporoid-bearing

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. Hong, S.-J. Choh, and J. D. Park Lee. 2017. Construction of the earliest stromatoporoid framework: Labechiid reefs from the Middle Ordovician of Korea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 470:54-62 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184483: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 06.03.2017

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

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Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Dianulites sp.
Dianulites sp. Eichwald 1829
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Labechiidae
Labechiella sp., Labechia sp.
Labechiella sp. Yabe and Sugiyama 1930 stromatoporoid sponge
Labechia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stromatoporoid sponge