Unit 5, Dawan Fm., Lushan Kaili, Guizhou Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (27.0° N, 108.0° E: paleocoordinates 18.7° N, 137.7° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Dawan Formation, Dawan (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, sandy limestone and shale

• limestone, 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 7353: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 23.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras sp.
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae
Asaphopsis sp.
Asaphopsis sp. Mansuy 1920 trilobite