Upper Unit, Meitan Fm., Yangzikou Bijie, Guizhou Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (27.0° N, 105.0° E: paleocoordinates 20.5° N, 138.9° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• limestone

Primary reference: Guizhou Stratigraphic Work Group. 1977. Regional stratigraphic table of the southwestern region of China, Guizhou part. Geological Publishing House, Beijing [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7639: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 30.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
Rhombifera
 Hemicosmitoida - Hemicosmitidae
Hemicosmites sp. Buch 1840
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae