Unit 10, Honghuayuan Fm., Yanheganxi and Yanhe, Guizhou Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (29.0° N, 109.0° E: paleocoordinates 16.5° N, 138.4° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Honghuayuan Formation, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified carbonate and chert

Primary reference: R. Wang. 1981. Stratigraphic Summary of the Southwestern Region of China. Institute of Geology and Mine Deposit at Chengdu, Ministry of Geology (not published, copy of article deposited with A. I. Miller at the University of Cincinnati, received through S. Mao) 14-61 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

PaleoDB collection 4769: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 19.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Endocerida - Cyrtendoceratidae
Cyrtovaginoceras sp. Kobayashi 1934
 Bisonocerida - Coreanoceratidae
Coreanoceras sp. Kobayashi 1931
 Actinocerida -
Hopeioceras sp. Shimuzu and Obata 1936
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Tritoechia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Tetralobulidae