Where: Mongolia, China (39.7° N, 106.8° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 24.6° N, 104.8° E (Wright 2013)
When: Baltoniodus triangularis - Baltoniodus navis conodont zone, Upper Member (Sandaokan Formation), Floian to Floian (477.1 - 469.4 Ma)
• Upper part of formation. Xu et al. (2015) put the whole formation at Xinchang - Yiyang (Tremadoc-Floian) in age.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; dolomitic limestone and quartzose sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Zhan, J. Jin, J. Rong and Y. Liang. 2013. The earliest known strophomenoids (Brachiopoda) from early Middle Ordovician rocks of South China. Palaeontology 56(5):1121-1148 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185763: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.05.2017
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Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Hesperinia sinensis n. sp.
Hesperinia sinensis n. sp. Rong and Zhan 1999 |