Unit 36.3, Meitan Fm., Upper Mbr., Honghauyuan and Tongzi, Guizhou Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (28.0° N, 107.0° E: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 138.7° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Meitan Formation), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified limestone and shale

• limestone and mudstone

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 5257: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 12.09.1999

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Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Porambonitidae
Porambonites sp.
Porambonites sp. Pander 1830