Where: Hubei, China (33.0° N, 111.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.6° N, 131.5° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Graptolite Shale Member (Wufeng Formation), Wufeng to Wufeng (449.5 - 445.2 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black, gray, silty shale
Primary reference: X. Wang, L. Xian, S. Ni, Q. Zheng, G. Xu, T. Zhou, C. Lai and Z. Li. 1987. Biostratigraphy of the Yangtze Gorge Area. Part (2) Early Paleozoic Era. Geological Publishing House, Beijing 43-142 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 4686: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 17.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Pterobranchia | |
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Pararetiograptus sp. graptolite | |
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Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid | |
"Orthoretiograptus sp." = Parareteograptus, Orthograptus sp., Paraorthograptus sp., Amplexograptus sp.
"Orthoretiograptus sp." = Parareteograptus Mu 1974 graptolite
Orthograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
Paraorthograptus sp. graptolite
Amplexograptus sp. graptolite | |
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Phormograptus sp. Whittington 1955 lasiograptid
Orthoretiolites sp. Whittington 1954 lasiograptid
Paraplegmatograptus sp. Mu and Lin 1984 lasiograptid | |
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"Dicellograptus sp." = Dicellograptus Hopkinson 1871 graptolite
"Leptograptus sp." = Dicellograptus Hopkinson 1871 graptolite
Pleurograptus sp. graptolite | |
| Craniata | |
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Eodinobolus sp. Rowell 1963 | |
| Lingulata | |
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Conotreta sp. Walcott 1889 | |