Shan Jian Grp., LiangTan Shan Jian, GuangDong Province, China (Ordovician of China)

Where: GuangDong, China (23.0° N, 111.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 3.8° S, 67.2° E (Wright 2013)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• ShanJian Group

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, green shale and siltstone

• Gray-green to gray-yellow sandy shale and gray-black siltstone

Primary reference: R. Jin and S. Cai. 1988. Regional Geology of GuangDong Province. Special Publication of China Minister of Geology and Mining, No.9. Geology Publishing House 1-? [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4680: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 16.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp.
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae
Christiania sp.
Christiania sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella sp.
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Productorthidae
Nicolella sp.
Nicolella sp. Reed 1917
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Multicostella sp.