Where: Yunnan, China (24.5° N, 98.6° E: paleocoordinates 6.2° N, 137.9° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Metabolograptus extraordinarius graptolite zone, Upper Member (Wanyaoshu Formation), Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; green, silty mudstone and silty shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Huang, H.-H. Zhou, D. A. T. Harper, R.-B. Zhan, X.-L. Zhang, D. Chen, and J.-Y. Rong. 2019. A latest Ordovician Hirnantia brachiopod fauna from western Yunnan, Southwest China and its paleobiogeographic significance. Palaeoworld [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203555: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.08.2019

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