SHod-22. Huanghuachang section, near Yichang (Ordovician of China)

Where: Hubei, China (30.9° N, 110.4° E: paleocoordinates 15.1° N, 140.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Azygograptus suecicus graptolite zone, Lower Member (Dawan Formation), Floian (477.7 - 470.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: nodular, gray, green shale and nodular limestone

• Grayish-green shale with nodular limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: X. Wang, S. Stouge, C. Xiaohong, L. Zhihong, W. Chuanshang, S. C. Finney, Z. Qingluan, Z. Zhiqiang, C. Huiming and B. D. Erdtmann. 2009. The global stratotype section and point for the base of the Middle Ordovician Series and the Third Stage (Dapingian). Episodes 32(2):96-112 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203696: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Phragmodontidae
Gothodus cf. costulatus Lindström 1955 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
 Prioniodontida - Oistodontidae
Oistodus lanceolatus Pander 1856 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
Periodon "sp. A" Hadding 1913 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Drepanoistodus forceps Lindström 1955 conodont
Paroistodus cf. proteus Lindström 1955 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Tetragraptidae
 Graptoloidea - Pterograptidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Euorthisinidae
 Pentamerida - Tetralobulidae
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Geragnostus sp. Howell 1935
Trilobita
 Proetida - Telephinidae
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Agerina elongata Lu 1975 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
"Liomegalaspides similes" = Liomegalaspides taningensis
"Liomegalaspides similes" = Liomegalaspides taningensis Weller 1907 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Ningkianolithus sp. Lu 1954 trilobite