YehLi Fm., ToFang Gou, BenXi City, LiaoNing Prov., China ( of China)

Where: LiaoNing, China (41.0° N, 123.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.6° S, 134.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: YehLi Formation, Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified, green, yellow shale

• Limestone interbedded with "bamboo-shaped" limestone with some yellow-green shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: Stratigraphic Group of LiaoNing and HeNan Provinces. 1989. Regional stratigraphic table of northern China: LiaoNing and HeNan Provinces. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China (Original source resides with A. Miller) [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20753: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 06.06.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Dendrograptidae
Dendrograptus sp. Hall 1858 graptolite
Airograptus sp. Ruedemann 1916 graptolite
Aspidograptus sp. graptolite
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Dictyonema sp. Hall 1851 graptolite
Callograptus sp. graptolite
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Hollinidae
 Leperditellocopida - Primitiidae
Primitia sp. Jones and Holl 1923 ostracod