Taunggyi (Ordovician of Myanmar)

Where: Southern Shan, Myanmar (20.8° N, 97.0° E: paleocoordinates 13.4° N, 142.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Naungkangyi Group, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• Probably early Caradoc

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: hydrochloric

Primary reference: L. R. M. Cocks and R.-b. Zhan. 1998. Caradoc brachiopods from the Shan States, Burma (Myanmar). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Geology) 54:109 -130 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186298: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.06.2017

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Protozygidae