Where: Xinjiang, China (40.2° N, 78.9° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 3.2° S, 53.3° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lianglitag Formation, Katian (452.8 - 445.2 Ma)
• collected from middle of bed 46
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, massive, white limestone
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 188391: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 30.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Artiopoda | |
Illaenus usitatus n. sp.
Illaenus usitatus n. sp. Zhou et al. 2014 trilobite | |
Dulanaspis asper n. sp.
Dulanaspis asper n. sp. Zhou et al. 2014 trilobite | |
"Lichidae" indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite |