YZ 4-3, Zhuzhai (Ordovician of China)

Where: Jiangxi, China (28.6° N, 118.3° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 7.3° S, 64.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tangyagraptus typicus graptolite zone, Xiazhen Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.1 Ma)

• Upper part of formation, Upper Ashgill

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

• bioclastic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R.-b. Zhan, J.-y. Rong, J. Jin and L.R.M. Cocks. 2002. Late Ordovician brachiopod communities of southeast China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39:445-468 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186240: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.06.2017

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
"Ovalospira dichotoma" = Schachriomonia dichotoma Fu 1982
 Rhynchonellida - Sphenotretidae
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella sinensis" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sinensis
"Sowerbyella sinensis" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sinensis Wang and Jin 1964