Where: Xinjiang, China (40.2° N, 78.9° E: paleocoordinates 31.1° S, 117.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Yangtzeplacognathus protoramosus conodont zone, Tumuxiuke Formation, Llanvirn (468.0 - 458.4 Ma)
• lower collection in bed 37
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, gray, red grainstone
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 188383: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 30.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Xystocrania sp. Whittington 1965 trilobite |