MengYuan-GuLang (Ordovician of China)

Also known as YingGou Fm., MengYuan-GuLang County, GanSu Prov., China

Where: Gansu, China (36.0° N, 102.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.2° S, 122.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: YinGou Formation, Llanvirn (468.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; volcaniclastic slate and lithified limestone

• Volcanic rocks, silicates, slate, and limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Stratigraphic Group of GanSu, QingHai, and Tibet Provinces. 1980. Regional Stratigraphic Table of China: Gansu, Qinghai, and Tibet Provinces [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23594: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 17.07.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Apatokephalus sp.
Apatokephalus sp. Brögger 1896 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
"Bathyuriscops sp." = Annamitella
"Bathyuriscops sp." = Annamitella Mansuy 1920 trilobite
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Glossograptidae
Cryptograptus sp., Glossograptus sp.
Glossograptus sp. graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp.
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite