Unit 23, Honghuayuan Fm., Honghuayuan and Tongzhi, 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: Honghuayuan Formation, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• 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 5272: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 12.09.1999

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Taxonomic list

Radiocyatha
  - Soanitidae
Calathium sp. Billings 1865
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Ecculiomphalus sp. Portlock 1843 snail
Cephalopoda
 Actinocerida -
Hopeioceras sp. Shimuzu and Obata 1936
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Hesperonomiidae
Hesperonomia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Psilocephalina sp. Hsu 1948 trilobite