Unit 39, Meitan Fm., Upper Mbr., Honghauyuan and Tongzi, Guizhou Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (28.0° N, 107.0° E: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 138.7° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Meitan Formation), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale and siltstone

• shale, mudstone and siltstone

Primary reference: R. Wang. 1981. Stratigraphic Summary of the Southwestern Region of China. Institute of Geology and Mine Deposit at Chengdu, Ministry of Geology (not published, copy of article deposited with A. I. Miller at the University of Cincinnati, received through S. Mao) 14-61 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

PaleoDB collection 5253: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 12.09.1999

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Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae
Taihungshania sp. Sun 1931 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
"Ichangolithus sp." = Hanchungolithus
"Ichangolithus sp." = Hanchungolithus Lu 1956 trilobite