Where: Hubei, China (33.0° N, 111.0° E: paleocoordinates 12.8° N, 140.9° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Dawan Formation), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified lime mudstone and 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 4718: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 18.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Drepanoistodus sp. Lindstrom 1971 conodont
Paroistodus sp. Lindström 1971 conodont | |
Protopanderodus sp. Lindström 1971 conodont
Scolopodus sp. conodont | |
Periodon sp. Hadding 1913 conodont | |
Baltoniodus sp. Lindstrom 1971 conodont | |
Oistodus sp. Pander 1856 conodont | |
Pterobranchia | |
Azygograptus sp. Nicholson and Lapworth 1875 graptolite | |
Phyllograptus sp. Hall 1858 graptolite | |
Rhombifera | |
Hemicosmites sp. Buch 1840 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Mimella sp. Cooper 1930 | |
Yangtzeella sp. Kolarova 1925 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Bathmoceras sp. Barrande 1865 | |
Gastropoda | |
Ecculiomphalus sp. Portlock 1843 snail |