Unit 21, Tongzhi Fm., Honghuayuan and Tongzhi, Guizhou Prov., China ( of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (28.0° N, 107.0° E: paleocoordinates 21.4° N, 143.4° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tongzi Formation, Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• muddy shale and 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 5274: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 12.09.1999

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Syntrophiidae
 Orthida - Hesperonomiidae
Hesperonomia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae
Tungtzuella sp. Lu 1957 trilobite