Unit 26, Lower Mbr., Fengdong'gun Fm., Yanjing Chengbei, Yunnan Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (28.0° N, 105.0° E: paleocoordinates 19.9° N, 139.7° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Fengdong'gun Formation), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, silty shale

• silty shale

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

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7264: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 21.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp.
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae
Omeipsis sp.
Omeipsis sp. Kobayashi 1951 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Hanchungolithus sp.
Hanchungolithus sp. Lu 1956 trilobite
Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Protocycloceratidae
Protocycloceras sp.