Unit 5, 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: offshore shelf; lithified mudstone 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 5280: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 12.09.1999

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Eocrinoidea
 Imbricata -
Imbricata indet. Sprinkle 1973
Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Acrotreta sp. Kutorga 1848
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Lohanpopsis sp. Lu 1965 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Psilocephalina sp. Hsu 1948 trilobite
Asaphellus sp. Callaway 1877 trilobite
 Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae
Asaphopsis sp. Mansuy 1920 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
"Szechuanella sp." = Pseudocalymene
"Szechuanella sp." = Pseudocalymene Pillet 1974 trilobite