Where: Hubei, China (31.0° N, 112.0° E: paleocoordinates 4.7° N, 128.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Hirnantia sagitiffera brachiopod zone, Kuanyinchiao Formation, Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)

• Hirnantia

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: 33 cm thick section

Primary reference: X. Chen, J. Rong, C. E. Mitchell, D. A. T. Harper, J. Fan, R. Zhan, Y. Zhang, R. Li, and Y. Wang. 2000. Late Ordovician to earliest Silurian graptolite and brachiopod biozonation from the Yangtze region, South China, with global correlation. Geological Magazine 137(6):623-650 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151941: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 23.10.2013

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