Unit 39, Baota Fm., Guangyingqiao and Qijiang, Sichuan Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (29.0° N, 107.0° E: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 139.5° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Baota Formation, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, sandy shale and limestone

• shale, sandstone and limestone

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 5402: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 02.10.1999

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Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
"Ichangolithus sp." = Hanchungolithus
"Ichangolithus sp." = Hanchungolithus Lu 1956 trilobite
 Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae
Taihungshania sp. Sun 1931 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Neopsilocephalina sp. Yin 1978 trilobite