Unit 3, 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 limestone and mudstone

• muddy limestone and shale

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 5282: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 12.09.1999

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Taxonomic list

Eocrinoidea
 Imbricata -
Imbricata indet. Sprinkle 1973
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Psilocephalina sp. Hsu 1948 trilobite
Asaphellus sp. Callaway 1877 trilobite