XinErTai Group, GouZiGou, HouCheng Co., XinJiang Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: XinJiang, China (44.0° N, 81.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.1° S, 84.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: XinErTai Group, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; black, gray, green, sandy siltstone and concretionary limestone

• Light grayish-green siltstone and gray to black sandstone interbedded with thin-bedded and nodular limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: Y. S. Zhang. 1981. Stratigraphic table of northwestern region of China: XinJiang Province part. 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 20791: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 07.06.2002

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Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp., Etagraptus sp.
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite
Etagraptus sp. Ruedemann 1904 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dicranograptidae
Dicranograptus sp., Dicellograptus sp.
Dicranograptus sp. Hall 1865 graptolite
Dicellograptus sp. Hopkinson 1871 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Isograptidae
Cardiograptus sp.