Earliest Silurian graptolites from Kalpin, western Tarim, Xinjiang, China

• Published in: Bulletin of Geosciences
• Main Authors: Wang, Wenhui (王文卉), Muir, Lucy A., Chen, Xu （陈旭）, Tang, Peng (唐鹏)
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 2015
• Subjects: Graptoloidea; Earliest Silurian; Xinjiang Province; China; End-ordovician Extinction; Arctic Canada; Global Correlation; Mass Extinction; Yangtze Region; South China; Boundary; Biostratigraphy; Cornwallis; Phylogeny; Geology; Paleontology; Geosciences; Multidisciplinary; Arctic; Canada; Koren
• Online Access: http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/21718; http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/21719; https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1549

A graptolite fauna containing 13 species in seven genera is described from the basal part of the Middle Member of the Kalpintag Formation, in the Kalpin region of Xinjiang Province, northwestern China. The taxa are Avitograptus sp. aff. A. avitus (Davies), Hirsutogroptus jideliensis (Koren' &am...