Unit 25, Dachensi Fm., Dongpo Emeishan (Ordovician of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (30.0° N, 103.0° E: paleocoordinates 20.1° N, 142.6° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Dachengsi Formation, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• Sec. 25

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified siltstone and shale

• siltstone and shale

Size class: macrofossils

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

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7268: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 21.05.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Trilobita
 Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae
Taihungshania sp. Sun 1931 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Psilocephalina sp. Hsu 1948 trilobite