Unit 42.3, Shizipu, Honghauyuan and Tongzi, Guizhou Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (28.0° N, 107.0° E: paleocoordinates 15.5° N, 134.0° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Shizipu Formation, Late/Upper Llanvirn (463.5 - 460.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, argillaceous limestone

• muddy limestone

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 5142: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 31.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
Bumastus sp. Murchison 1839 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Lonchodomas sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Birmanites sp. Sheng 1934 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
"Calymenesum sp." = Calymenesun
"Calymenesum sp." = Calymenesun Kobayashi 1951 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Camerellidae
Camerella sp. Billings 1859
 Pentamerida - Porambonitidae
Porambonites sp. Pander 1830
 Orthida - Productorthidae
Nicolella sp. Reed 1917
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Clitambonitidae
Clitambonites sp. Pander 1830
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Leptellina sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Bellimurina sp. Cooper 1956
Cephalopoda
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Dideroceras sp. Flower 1950
 Sphaeronitida - Aristocystitidae