Shijiezigou section, Layer 7, Beiguoshan Fm, Guyuan City : Katian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Echinoderma indet.
5 %-volume
Ulvophyceae
Vermiporella borealis
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales - Seletonellaceae
Dasyporella informal sp.1 Stolley 1893
Moniliporella camerta
Stromatoporoidea - Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon sp. Nicholson and Murie 1878
Stromatoporoidea - Labechiida - Labechiidae
Labechiella sp. Yabe and Sugiyama 1930
Anthozoa - Favositida - Agetolitidae
Agetolites sp. Sokolov 1955
Anthozoa - Tetradiida - Tetradiidae
Rhabdotetradium guyuanense
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
6 %-volume
Ostracoda
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802
Trilobita
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771
see common names

Geography
Country:China
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 106.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.4° South, 120.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Katian
Age range of interval:453.00000 - 445.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Beiguoshan
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Katian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: wackestone
Lithology description: 18 m of thick-bedded to massive wackestone with dolomitized patches and contains a few in situ tabulate corals and stromatoporoids.
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:193314
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2018-05-11 06:05:09 Last modified:2018-05-11 06:05:09
Access level:authorizer only Released:2018-11-11 06:05:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

65677. L. Zheng, H. Bao, Y. Wu, L. Sun, H. Jiang, J. Ren, Z. Huang and L. Liu. 2018. Distinguishing coral reef facies from coral-bearing open platform facies: Examples from Ordovician Ordos Basin, Northwest China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 495:72-86 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]