TNJ 008 (Ordovician of China)

Also known as JSA 15

Where: Tibet, China (28.4° N, 86.1° E: paleocoordinates 13.6° S, 160.1° E)

When: Ordoceras - Manchuroceras Zone Member (Lower Chiatsun Formation), Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal, silty limestone

• silty, bioclastic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Zhan, D. A. T. Harper, J. Jin, Y. Liang, J. Liu, L. Stemmerik, and S. Stouge. 2014. Middle Ordovician Aporthophyla brachiopod fauna from the roof of the world, southern Tibet. Palaeontology 57(1):141-170 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186223: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.06.2017

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
 Strophomenida - Taffiidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquinidae indet. Schuchert 1893
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
Paralenorthis costata Zhan et al. 2014
 Pentamerida - Camerellidae
Xizangostrophia sinensis Rong and Liu 1976