Where: Hubei, China (30.9° N, 111.4° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 16.4° S, 89.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Undulograptus sinodentatus graptolite zone, 3 Member (Dawan Formation), Arenigian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

• According to the graptolite biostratigraphy of Lindström et al. (1991), the shales of the lower 6 met re interval represent the Undulograptus sinodentatus Zone , and horizons upsection of this the U. austrodentatus Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; nodular, gray, green, yellow, argillaceous, calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Turvey in 1998-1999

Primary reference: S. T. Turvey. 2005. Early Ordovician (Arenig) trilobite palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of the South China Plate. Palaeontology 48(3):519-547 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 116201: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 06.09.2011, edited by Pete Wagner

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