Beiguoshan (O3b) - LJP (Ordovician of China)

Where: China (35.0° N, 106.7° E: paleocoordinates 27.0° S, 121.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Beiguoshan Formation, Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)

• middle Katian

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; packstone and reef rocks

• packstone & stromatoporid reef (Hedstroemia)

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: L. Liu, Y. Wu, H. Bao, H. Jiang, L. Zheng and Y. Chen. 2021. Diversity and systematics of Middle-Late Ordovician calcified cyanobacteria and associated microfossils from Ordos Basin, North China. Journal of Paleontology 95(1):1-23 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 226107: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 17.06.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Hedstroemia halimedoidea, Rothpletzella sp.
Ulvophyceae
  -
Vermiporella sp.
Vermiporella sp. Stolley 1893
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Ortonella furcata
Ortonella furcata Garwood 1914 clam
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Garwoodia gregaria
Garwoodia gregaria Nicholson 1941