Shijiezigou section, Layer 2, Beiguoshan Fm, Guyuan City (Ordovician of China)

Also known as Reef 4193

Where: China (36.2° N, 106.6° E: paleocoordinates 26.4° S, 120.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Lower Katian

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone and wackestone

• 5.0 m thick
• The abundant tabulate corals form a framestone or a bafflestone with a matrix of crinoid-dasycladacean wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193282: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 09.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Agetolitinus sp.
Anthozoa
 Sarcinulida - Syringophyllidae
Sarcinula guyuanensis
Sarcinula guyuanensis tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Mesofavosites sp.
Mesofavosites sp. Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Fletcheriellidae
Eofletcheriella primitva
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora sp.
Catenipora sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Plasmoporellidae
Plasmoporella yanruiensis
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet.
Rugosa indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Fletcheriidae
Fletcheriidae sp.
Fletcheriidae sp. Zittel 1876 horn coral
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Ulvophyceae
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Vermiporella fragilis
Vermiporella fragilis Stolley 1893