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)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black, gray sandstone and claystone
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 4688: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 17.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Pterobranchia | |
"Tangyagraptus sp." = Syndyograptus
"Tangyagraptus sp." = Syndyograptus graptolite | |
Paraplegmatograptus sp. Mu and Lin 1984 lasiograptid
Orthoretiolites sp. Whittington 1954 lasiograptid
Yinograptus sp. Mu 1962 lasiograptid | |
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid | |
Amplexograptus sp. graptolite
Orthograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
Paraorthograptus sp. graptolite
Diplograptus sp. graptolite | |
Trilobita | |
Leonaspis sp. Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite | |
Craniata | |
"Sanxiaella sp." = Pseudopholidops
"Sanxiaella sp." = Pseudopholidops | |
Eodinobolus sp. Rowell 1963 | |
Strophomenata | |
Paromalomena sp. Rong 1984 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Manosia sp. Zeng 1983 |