Baisha Section, Shiqian, Lungmachi Formation, NE Guizhou (Silurian of China)

Where: China (27.5° N, 108.2° E: paleocoordinates 8.8° N, 126.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lungmachi Formation, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)

• earliest Rhuddanian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale

• lower part: yellow shales, 1 m thick; upper part: graptolitic black shales, 4 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

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 61390: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.06.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Neodiplograptidae
"Normalograptus persculptus" = Persculptograptus persculptus, Neodiplograptus bicaudatus
"Normalograptus persculptus" = Persculptograptus persculptus Elles and Wood 1907 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
"Normalograptus madernii" = Paramplexograptus madernii
"Normalograptus madernii" = Paramplexograptus madernii Koren' and Mikhaylova 1980 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Normalograptidae
Normalograptus lubricus, Normalograptus cf. normalis
Normalograptus lubricus Chen and Lin 1978 graptolite
Normalograptus cf. normalis Lapworth 1877 graptolite