Xiangshuyuan Section, Shiqian, Lungmachi Formation, NE Guizhou (Silurian of China)

Where: China (27.5° N, 108.2° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 2.6° N, 68.0° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lungmachi Formation, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)

• earliest Rhuddanian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified wackestone

• lower part: dark gray shales, 1.3 m thick; upper part: yellow silt intercalated with some carbonate lenses (mudstone and wackestone), 2 m thick. The bioclastic debris is composed of the first brachiopods after the mass extinction in this section.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Li and S. Kershaw. 2003. Reef Reconstruction after Extinction Events of the Latest Ordovician in the Yangtze Platform, South China. Facies 48:269-284 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61389: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
? Beitaia sp.
? Beitaia sp. Rong et al. 1974
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Levenea sp.
Levenea sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Latiproetus sp.
Latiproetus sp. Lu 1962 trilobite