Shizipu Fm., Yangzikou Bijie, Guizhou Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (27.0° N, 105.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 6.5° S, 81.6° E (Wright 2013)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Shizipu Formation, Early/Lower Llanvirn (468.0 - 461.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified shale and sandstone

• shale and sandstone

Primary reference: Guizhou Stratigraphic Work Group. 1977. Regional stratigraphic table of the southwestern region of China, Guizhou part. Geological Publishing House, Beijing [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7638: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 30.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Mimella sp. Cooper 1930
 Orthida - Orthidae
Orthis sp. Dalman 1828
 Sphaeronitida - Aristocystitidae