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
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 | |
Calathium sp. Billings 1865 | |
Gastropoda | |
Ecculiomphalus sp. Portlock 1843 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Hopeioceras sp. Shimuzu and Obata 1936 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Hesperonomia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
Trilobita | |
Psilocephalina sp. Hsu 1948 trilobite |