Well TZ 161, Member 2 (Ordovician of China)

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: 2 Member (Lianglitag Formation), Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)

• Lower Katian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• ypical shallow platform facies deposited in moderate to high water energy.
• coarse oncolitic limestones

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 184488: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.03.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Bryozoa
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Brachiopoda
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Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
Hedstroemia sp. Pribyl and Vanek 1978 trilobite
Ulvophyceae
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Vermiporella sp. Stolley 1893
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
Tetradium
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Tetradium sp. Dana 1846