Where: Guizhou, China (27.0° N, 107.0° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 11.2° S, 86.3° E (Wright 2013)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Meitan Formation, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, silty shale and sandstone
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 7346: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 23.05.2000
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Liomegalaspides sp. Lu and Chang 1974 trilobite | |
Taihungshania sp. Sun 1931 trilobite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Mimella sp. Cooper 1930 | |
Pterobranchia | |
Tetragraptus sp. Salter 1863 graptolite |