Also known as Reef 4006
Where: China (39.3° N, 84.7° E: paleocoordinates 34.3° S, 117.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: 3 Member (Lianglitag Formation), Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)
• Lower Katian
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: intrashelf or intraplatform reef; lithified grainstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: core, peel or thin section,
• Drilling cores from oil exploration
Primary reference: Y. Zhang, Y. Li, G. Wang and A. Munnecke. 2017. Windward and leeward margins of an Upper Ordovician carbonate platform in the Central Tarim Uplift, Xinjiang, northwestern China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 474:79-88 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 184487: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.03.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. lamp shell | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. bryozoan | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797 | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge | |
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877 | |
Tetradium | |
Tetradium sp. Dana 1846 | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Vermiporella sp. Stolley 1893 |