Hongshiya Fm., YongRen, YongRen Co., YunNan Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: YunNan, China (26.0° N, 102.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.3° N, 139.8° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, gray, green sandstone and shale

• purplish red to grayish green to grayish white quartz sandstone and shale

Primary reference: Stratigraphic Group of Yunnan, China. 1978. Regional stratigraphic data of Southwest China, Yunnan Province. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7742: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.06.2000

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Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp.
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
Sinorthis sp.
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus sp.
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Ningkianolithus sp.
Ningkianolithus sp. Lu 1954 trilobite
 Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae
Taihungshania sp.
Taihungshania sp. Sun 1931 trilobite