Where: Jilin Provence, China (42.1° N, 126.7° E: paleocoordinates 5.3° S, 127.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cordylodus lindstromi zone trilobite zone, Ordovician (485.4 - 443.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Trilobites and Conodonts only, Collected in the Xiaoyangqiao Upper section, collection 23(A-D), 42m 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 156940: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 02.06.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Teridontus huanghuachangensis conodont
Utahconus utahensis Miller 1969 conodont | |
Cordylodus proavus Müller 1959 conodont |