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Lower Ordovician lithistid sponges from the eastern Yangtze Gorge area, Hubei, China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Liu Bingli ,
J. Keith Rigby ,
Jiang Yanwen  and
Zhu Zhongde
Liu Bingli
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Jianghan Petroleum Institute, Jingsha, Hubei 434102, China
J. Keith Rigby
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, 673 WIDB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602-5111, USA
Jiang Yanwen
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Jianghan Petroleum Institute, Jingsha, Hubei 434102, China
Zhu Zhongde
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Jianghan Petroleum Institute, Jingsha, Hubei 434102, China
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Abstract

A moderately diverse assemblage of anthaspidellid demosponges has been recovered from reef-bearing carbonate platform deposits of Early Ordovician, Tremadoc to early Arenig age, in Hubei Province. The sponges occur, in part, in the Tremadoc Fenxiang Formation and, in part, in the lower Arenig Honghuayuan Formation at several localities near Yichang, Xintan, and Liujiachang. Archaeoscyphia nana Beresi and Rigby, 1993, Archaeoscyphia pulchra (Bassler, 1927), and Archaeoscyphia minganensis (Billings, 1859) occur with the new genera and species, Jianghania yichangensis and Velellospongia adnata, and the new species Rhopalocoelia sanxiaensis and Anthaspidella lamellata. This is the first reported occurrence of Anthaspidella in Ordovician rocks of China. Great numbers of these species of fossil sponges have been found in Lower Ordovician outcrops, particularly in the eastern Yangtze Gorge area of Hubei Province.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 71 , Issue 2 , March 1997 , pp. 194 - 207
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