Midshelf Caradoc assemblage at PanLong, GuangXi Province, China (Ordovician of China)

Where: GuangXi, China (23.0° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 13.7° N, 125.6° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, silty sandstone and shale

• Quartz phyllite and sandstone with siltstone and silty, micaceous mudstone

Primary reference: J. H. MinSheng. 1985. Regional Geology of GuangXi ZhuangZu ZiZhi Zhou. Special Publication of China Minister of Geology and Mining, No.3. Geology Publishing House 1-? [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4671: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 15.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Ancistrorhynchidae
"Ancistrorhynchia sp." = Ancistrorhyncha
"Ancistrorhynchia sp." = Ancistrorhyncha Ulrich and Cooper 1942
 Orthida - Orthidae
Orthis sp. Dalman 1828
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Plectorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Taffiidae
Aporthophyla sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1938
Leptella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892