Where: Guizhou, China (27.8° N, 106.9° E: paleocoordinates 13.5° N, 131.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pagoda Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray lime mudstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by Gongzheng Yin, Ronald P. Tripp, Zhiyi Zhoum Zhiqiang Zhou, Wenwei Yuan

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: G. Yin, R. P. Tripp, Z. Zhou, Z. Zhou, and W. Yuan. 1999. Trilobites and biofacies of the Ordovician Pagoda Formation, Donggongsi of Zunyi, Guizhou Province, China. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 90:203-220 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182199: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 13.10.2016

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