Where: Xinjiang, China (40.6° N, 79.5° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 12.9° S, 64.3° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pterograptus elegans graptolite zone, Saergan Formation, Llanvirn (468.0 - 458.2 Ma)
• one of uppermost collection in bed 12
Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, black mudstone and lithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1987; reposited in the NIGPAS
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
• Collection made as part of an extensive field investigation of the periphery of the Tarim Basin by geologists of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, and the 05 Project Administration, Bureau of Petroleum Geology of Southwest China.
Primary reference: Z. Zhou, G. Yin, and Z. Zhou. 2014. Ordovician (Darriwilian-early Katian) trilobite faunas of northwestern Tarim, Xinjiang, China. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 46:1-142 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188330: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 29.08.2017
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Taxonomic list
Artiopoda | |
Lisogorites sp. Chugaeva 1958 trilobite |