horizon 5, Feilaishi section (Ordovician of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (27.8° N, 106.9° E: paleocoordinates 14.5° N, 132.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Glyptograptus teretiusculus foram zone, Shihtzupu Formation, Llandeilo (461.1 - 458.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray, green, sandy, calcareous mudstone

• Bed is 5.7 m thick interval of greenish-grey, thin-bedded, sandy and calcarous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Zhou, Yin, Tripp; reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: Z. Zhou, G. Yin, and R. P. Tripp. 1984. Trilobites from the Ordovician Shihtzupu Formation, Zunyi, Guizhou Province, China. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 75:13-36 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188421: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 31.08.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Hastiremopleurides shihtzupuensis
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Birmanites hupeiensis
Birmanites hupeiensis Yi 1957 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx abnormalis, Rhombampyx yii, Lonchodomas yohi
Ampyx abnormalis Yi 1957 trilobite
Rhombampyx yii Lu 1965 trilobite
Lonchodomas yohi Sun 1931 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichidae
"? Amphilichas browni" = Tairongia browni, Metopolichas sinensis
"? Amphilichas browni" = Tairongia browni Sun 1931 trilobite
 Proetida - Telephinidae
Telephina angulata, Phorocephala shizipuensis
Telephina angulata Yi 1957 trilobite
Phorocephala shizipuensis Yin 1978 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus renhuaiensis
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Annamitella sp.
Annamitella sp. Mansuy 1920 trilobite
 Phacopida - Prosopiscidae
Prosopiscus subparallelus
Prosopiscus subparallelus Lu 1974 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
? Cybelurus sp.
? Cybelurus sp. Levitsky 1962 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Pseudosphaerexochus sp.
Pseudosphaerexochus sp. Schmidt 1881 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus Koroleva 1959 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
"Prionocheilus pulcher" = Prionocheilus pulchra
"Prionocheilus pulcher" = Prionocheilus pulchra Beyrich 1846 trilobite
subgenus parapulcher
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Diacanthaspis sp.
Diacanthaspis sp. Whittington 1941 trilobite
Calymenesun tingi
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Calymenesun tingi