Collection 2 (A-D) (Cambrian of China)

Where: Jilin, China (42.1° N, 126.7° E: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 139.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mictosaukia - Fatocephalus zone trilobite zone, Fengshan Formation, Niuchehean (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• Fengshanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• nodular micrite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Trilobites and Conodonts only, Collected in the Xiaoyangqiao lower section, collection 2(A-D), 4m from the base of the formation

Primary reference: J.-W. Chen, Y.-Y. Qian, J.-M. Zhang, Y.-K. Lin, L.-M. Yin, Z.-H. Wang, Z.-Z. Wang, J.-D. Yang, and Y.-X. Wang. 1988. The recommended Cambrian - Ordovician global Boundry stratotype of the Xiaoyangqiao section (Dayangcha, Jilin Province), China. In W. B. Harland, C. P. Hughes, R. S. J. Sparks, N. H. Woodcock, I. N. McCave (eds.), Geological Magazine 125(4):415-444 [M. Hopkins/S. Mahmood/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156902: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 02.06.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Conodonta
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 Paraconodontida -
Furnishina furnishi Muller 1959 conodont
Prooneotodus gallatini Müller 1959 conodont
 Proconodontida - Proconodontidae
Proconodontus muelleri Miller 1969 conodont
 Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
  - Amphigeisinidae
Phakelodus tenuis Muller 1959 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Clavohamulidae
"Dasytodus nodus" = Hirsutodontus nodus, "Ancidontus anciensis" = Clavohamulus anciensis
"Dasytodus nodus" = Hirsutodontus nodus Zhang and Xiang 1983 conodont
"Ancidontus anciensis" = Clavohamulus anciensis Zhang and Lin 1983 conodont