Brevilamnulella Community, Heshui, Yinjiang Co., Guizhou Province (Silurian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (28.0° N, 108.5° E: paleocoordinates 7.3° N, 126.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

• Late Middle Llandovery.

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, calcareous mudstone

• "Abundant articulated specimens [associated with only two other genera] in gray, calcareous mudstone consistent with restrictive, BA 5, fairly quiet-water environment."
• "gray, calcareous mudstone"

Primary reference: Y. Wang, A. J. Boucot, J.Y. Rong and X.C. Yang. 1987. Community paleoecology as a geologic tool: the Chinese Ashgillian-Eifelian (latest Ordovician through early Middle Devonian) as an example. Geological Society of America Special Paper 211:1-100 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25749: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 24.09.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Virgianidae
Brevilamnulella sp.
Brevilamnulella sp. Amsden 1974
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp.
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Beitaia sp.
Beitaia sp. Rong et al. 1974