Baota(?) Fm., DaTianBa, Xiushan County, Sichuan Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (29.0° N, 109.0° E: paleocoordinates 12.2° N, 132.3° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Baota Formation, Llandeilo (461.1 - 458.4 Ma)

• Unsure which formation it is; possibly the Baota Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, argillaceous limestone

• limestone with mud clasts

Primary reference: Sichuan Stratigraphic Work Group. 1978. Regional stratigraphic table of the southwestern region of China, Sichuan part. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7657: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 30.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Lituitida - Lituitidae
Lituites sp. Bertrand 1763