Floian, Early Ordovician, trilobites from the Olongbluk Terrane, northwest China
Floian, Early Ordovician trilobites are systematically described and revised based on new material from the middle part of the Duoquanshan Formation of the Shihuigou area, northern Qinghai Province, northwest China. The fauna that lived on the shallow-water carbonate platform comprises three speci...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of Paleobiology PAS
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |
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| Online Access: | https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app68/app011022023.pdf |
| Summary: | Floian, Early Ordovician trilobites are systematically described and revised based on new material from the middle part
of the Duoquanshan Formation of the Shihuigou area, northern Qinghai Province, northwest China. The fauna that lived
on the shallow-water carbonate platform comprises three species belonging to two families, i.e., Tsaidamaspis diarmatus,
Zhiyia tsinghaiensis, and Liexiaspis sp. indeterminate. It exhibits a strong endemicity to the Olongbluk terrane. The new
isoteline genus Zhiyia is established on the basis of the material from the Olongbluk terrane and South China palaeoplate,
and is characterized by its: (i) almost obsolete cephalic and pygidial axial furrows; (ii) flattened anterior border
and narrow (sag., exsag.) occipital ring; (iii) bilobed hypostome with a shallow median notch and a small triangular
median projection; (iv) subsemicircular pygidium with wide pygidial axis and border. Faunal evidence indicates that the
palaeogeographic position of the Olongbluk terrane may have been situated closer to the South China palaeoplate rather
than the North China palaeoplate during the Floian. |
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| ISSN: | 0567-7920 1732-2421 |