Where: Sichuan, China (29.3° N, 102.7° E: paleocoordinates 12.3° N, 131.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nancheng Formation, Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: brachiopods only; trilobites, gastropods and crinoids reported to be present, but not listed

Primary reference: Y. Li and S. Kershaw. 2003. Reef Reconstruction after Extinction Events of the Latest Ordovician in the Yangtze Platform, South China. Facies 48:269-284 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61387: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.06.2006, edited by Pete Wagner

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