Where: Shaanxi, China (34.3° N, 108.7° E: paleocoordinates 23.9° S, 125.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Climacograptus wilsoni graptolite zone, Lower Member (Pagoda Formation), Sandbian (458.4 - 453.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: J.-y. Rong, R.-b. Zhan, and D. A. T. Harper. 1999. Late Ordovician (Caradoc-Ashgill) Brachiopod Faunas with Foliomena Based on Data from China. Palaios 14:412-431 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186306: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.06.2017

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