Jing River, Chunhua (Ordovician of China)

Where: Shaanxi, China (34.7° N, 108.6° E: paleocoordinates 26.5° S, 121.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Beiguoshan Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• lenticular limestones and dark grey limestones with chert intercalated with greyish black silty shales

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: B. Lin and B. D. Webby. 1988. Clathrodictyid stromatoporoids from the Ordovician of China. Alcheringa 12:233-247 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80678: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.05.2008

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Paraheliolites cf. tashanenis
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
"Plectatrypa pennata" = Eospirigerina pennata
"Plectatrypa pennata" = Eospirigerina pennata Rukavishnikova 1956
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Ceraurus sp.
Ceraurus sp. Green 1832 trilobite
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida -
Labechiida indet.
Labechiida indet. Kühn 1927 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
? Clathrodictyon sp.
? Clathrodictyon sp. Nicholson and Murie 1878 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Favistina alveolata
Favistina alveolata horn coral
var. maxima
 Sarcinulida - Billingsariidae
Foerstephyllum liquanense
 Auloporida - Thecostegitidae
Tetraporella maxima
Tetraporella maxima tabulate coral
 Tetradiida - Tetradiidae
Rhabdotetradium liquanense
 Heliolitida - Proporidae
"Plasmoporella kiaeri" = Leleshusia kiaeri
"Plasmoporella kiaeri" = Leleshusia kiaeri Sokolov 1955 tabulate coral