Correlating the global Cambrian-Ordovician boundary: Precise comparison of the Xiaoyangqiao section, Dayangcha, North China with the Green Point GSSP section, Newfoundland, Canada

• Published in: Palaeoworld
• Main Authors: Wang, Xiao-Feng, Stouge, Svend, Maletz, Joerg, Bagnoli, Gabriella, Qi, Yu-Ping, Raevskaya, Elena G., Wang, Chuan-Shang, Yan, Chun-Bo
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: ELSEVIER 2019
• Subjects: Dayangcha ASSP section; Green Point GSSP section; Cambrian-Ordovician boundary; Acritarchs; Conodonts; Graptolites; SEA-LEVEL CHANGES; COW HEAD GROUP; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHANDONG PROVINCE; CARBON ISOTOPES; JILIN-PROVINCE; CONODONT; STRATOTYPE; FAUNAS; IAPETOGNATHUS; Paleontology; Canada; Cow Head; Green Point; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/27775; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2019.01.003

The Cambrian-Ordovician boundary interval exposed at the Xiaoyangqiao section, North China is presented. The distribution of stratigraphically important fossils in the Xiaoyangqiao section revealed several nearly coeval graptolite, conodont, trilobite, and acritarch bioevents in the uppermost Cambri...