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The Base of the Middle Ordovician in China with Special Reference to the Succession at Hengtang Near Jiangshan, Zhejiang Provinc TheBlackwell Publishing Ltd base of the Middle Ordovician in China with special reference to the succession at Hengtang near Jiangshan, Zhejiang Province, southern China XU CHEN, STIG M. BERGSTRÖM, YUAN-DONG ZHANG AND JUN-XUAN FAN Chen, X., Bergström, S.M., Zhang, Y-D. & Fan, J-X. 2009: The base of the Middle LETHAIA Ordovician in China with special reference to the succession at Hengtang near Jiangshan, Zhejiang Province, Southern China. Lethaia, Vol. 42, pp. 218–231 Extensive work during the last decade has led to the recent decision by the International Subcommission on Ordovician Stratigraphy that the base of the Middle Ordovician Series should be placed at the base of the Baltoniodus triangularis Conodont Biozone in the Huanghuachang GSSP (Global Stratotype Section and Point) section near Yichang, Hubei Province, China. A review of the biostratigraphy of successions in many parts of China shows that for various reasons, it is currently difficult to recognize the precise boundary level in many regions, and additional studies are clearly needed. A newly exposed, previously poorly known, condensed section in deeperwater facies at Hengtang near Jiangshan in the Chiangnan (Jiangnan) belt has yielded a substantial number of important graptolites and conodonts through the boundary interval. It pro- vides a more informative illustration of the relations between the ranges of several key taxa of these groups than any other section in China, and the level of the base of the Middle Ordovician appears to be within an about 1.8 m thick interval of Ningkuo Formation, and lies in the lower Isograptus caduceus imitatus Biozone. ᮀ Biostratigraphy, China, conodonts, graptolites, Middle Ordovician. Chen Xu [[email protected]; [email protected]], Zhang Yuan-dong [ydzhang@ nigpas.ac.cn] and Fan Jun-xian [[email protected]], State Key Laboratory of Palaeontology & Stratigraphy, Nanjing, Institute of Geology & Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, 210008, Nanjing, P.R. China; Stig M. Bergström [[email protected]], School of Earth Sciences, Division of Geological Sciences, The Ohio State University, 155 S. Oval Mall, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA; manuscript received on 23/3/2007; manuscript accepted on 14/6/2008. During the last decade, much international work has Whiterock Canyon section in Nevada that had been been carried out with the goal of establishing globally proposed as the candidate section for the Middle recognizable series and stages in the Ordovician Ordovician Series GSSP (Global Stratotype Section and System. The marked provincial differentiation of Point) (Mitchell 2001). These problems made the Ordovician faunas (Jaanusson 1979) has caused this Whiterock Canyon section unsuitable as a GSSP, work to be more difficult than was envisioned when and subsequently, two other sections, the Huang- several working groups were established in the mid- huachang section on the Yangtze platform (Wang 1990s (Webby 1994). The International Subcommission et al. 2005) and the Niquivil section in the Argentine on Ordovician Stratigraphy (ISOS) decided in 1995 Precordillera (Albanesi et al. 2003, 2006), were pro- that the Ordovician should be subdivided into three posed as GSSP candidate sections for this series series, the Lower, Middle and Upper Ordovician series. boundary. After considerable discussion of the merits It was also proposed (Webby 1994) that the base of of each of these sections, the Huanghuachang section the Middle Ordovician Series should be defined as was selected as the GSSP in 2006 based on its the level of first occurrence of the conodont Tripodus approval by a large majority of the votes by the Sub- laevis. In terms of graptolite biozones, this level was commission members in a formal vote by the ISOS. considered to be somewhere within the Isograptus In the Huanghuachang section, the GSSP level is victoriae lunatus Biozone (Finney & Ethington 1995). the first appearance datum (FAD) of the conodont This horizon was regarded as close to, if not coeval Baltoniodus triangularis as was proposed by Wang with, the base of the Volkhovian Stage in Baltoscandia et al. (2005). This level coincides with the FAD and was characterized as an ‘extraordinary reference of Periodon sp. A and is just below the FAD of level for global correlation’ by Bergström (1995). Microzarkodina flabellum. It is also well above the Unfortunately, further studies suggested that there local base of the Azygograptus suecicus Graptolite are serious problems with both the appearance level Biozone of Wang et al. (2005). Hence, it is near the of T. laevis and the graptolite biostratigraphy in the level advocated by Li et al. (2002), Zhang & Chen DOI 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00148.x © 2009 The Authors, Journal compilation © 2009 The Lethaia Foundation LETHAIA 42 (2009) Base of the Middle Ordovician in SE China 219 (2003) and Chen et al. (2003a), namely that the base Wang et al. 2007) shows that the interval containing of the Middle Ordovician should be near the base of S. diversus is overlain by strata containing the Scolopodus? the ‘A. suecicus Biozone’ in the Yangtze region or tarimensis fauna that is currently difficult to place within that biozone. When referring to this biozone precisely in the detailed conodont biozone scheme in in the Yangtze region, we use quotation marks (‘A. South China (An 1987), Baltoscandia (Lindström suecicus Biozone’) because as shown in succeeding 1971), and North America (Ethington & Clark 1982). discussions, the range of this biozone is markedly The base of the global Middle Ordovician Series is different between the Yangtze region and its typical likely to be within the upper part of the Upper Qiulitag development in the Chiangnan (Jiangnan) region. Group, but further studies are needed to pinpoint its The precise level of the base of the B. triangularis precise position. Unfortunately, conodonts are sparse Biozone in terms of the international graptolite zonal in that shallow-water carbonate interval, and those classification is not yet firmly established. However, the available are not very useful for long-distance correla- conodont-graptolite biozone relations in Scandinavia tions. Furthermore, based on the available biostrati- (cf. Maletz 2005) suggest that this horizon is very graphic evidence, it cannot be excluded that a close to, if not the same as, the base of the I. victoriae significant stratigraphic gap separates the Upper victoriae Biozone. Qiulitag Group from the overlying Yijianfang In China, the subdivision and correlation of the Formation, which is at least partly of Darriwilian Lower and Middle Ordovician have been one of the age (Wang et al. 2007). research foci of Chinese Ordovician stratigraphers. A At Dawangou, Kalpin (Fig. 1, loc. 2), on the western review of the biostratigraphy of the interval around slope of the Tarim Platform, the boundary is within the base of the global Middle Ordovician Series in the the interval between the Paroistodus proteus Conodont vast territory of China is particularly relevant at this Biozone and Baltoniodus aff. navis Conodont Biozone time in view of the recent formal selection of a GSSP (Wang Zhi-hao in Zhou et al. 1990). No graptolites for this level in China. Moreover, much of the pertinent have been recovered from the Qiulitag carbonate information about this stratigraphic interval is in successions. In the Wuligezitag area in eastern Tarim Chinese and/or in publications not readily available (Fig. 1, loc. 4), the boundary between the Lower and outside China. The interval across the proposed GSSP Middle Ordovician appears to correspond to the base level is developed in apparently stratigraphically of the Periodon flabellum – Baltoniodus? triangularis continuous carbonate facies successions on three Conodont Biozone in the Xiangguletag Formation major palaeoplates, the Tarim, North China, and Tibet (Zhao et al. 2000) that consists of shallow-water lime- palaeoplates (Chen & Rong 1992). The relevant strati- stone. In the deeper-water facies belt, as represented graphy in each of these regions, along with that in by the Heituao Formation in the Queerqueke area some other areas, is briefly reviewed in the first part (Fig. 1, loc. 5), this boundary may be within the of this paper. The last part of the paper focuses on South Expansograptus abnormis Graptolite Biozone (Zhong China, especially a new and particularly important & Hao 1990). Establishing the precise level of the section at Hengtang, Jiangshan, in Zhejiang Province. base of the Middle Ordovician clearly requires further study, but this biozonal index graptolite, although being an endemic species for China, is common in the A. suecicus Graptolite Biozone in Regional review the southern part of this country including the Chiangnan transitional belt. However, the detailed Tarim stratigraphic distribution of the key conodonts and In western Tarim, the succession from the Lower graptolites now used for the definition of the base of Ordovician to the lower part of the Middle Ordovician the Middle Ordovician have not yet been completely is mainly developed in shallow-water, in many cases described in either the shallow or deep-water facies dolomitic, limestones that are assigned to the Qiulitag of Tarim. We hope that further studies will fill this Group. Previously, the base of the Middle Ordovician gap in our knowledge about the geology of one of the has been taken to be the base of the Aurilobus leptosomas- most important Ordovician areas in China. Loxodus dissectus Biozone (Zhao et al. 2000) at Bachu (Fig. 1, loc. 3) on the western edge of the Tarim North China platform. This level is below their Paroistodus originalis Biozone and well above the characteristic Serratognathus The areas so far investigated on the North China diversus Biozone that is generally correlated with the palaeoplate include mainly the North China platform Paroistodus proteus Biozone in Baltoscandia. However, and its western mobile belt. The Tremadocian to recent work (Wang & Zhou 1998; Wang & Qi 2001; Sandbian strata are mainly carbonate deposits with 220 Chen et al.
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