Nanjinguan Fm., WenTang, DaYong Co., Hunan Province, China (Ordovician of China)

Where: Hunan, China (29.0° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 18.7° N, 142.6° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Nanjinguan Formation, Tremadoc (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, dolomitic, gray sandstone and limestone

• quartz sandstone and dark gray limestone and dolostone

Primary reference: Hunan Geology and Mine Deposit Bureau. 1988. Summary of regional geology of Hu''nan Province, China. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7695: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 31.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae
Asaphopsis sp. Mansuy 1920 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
"Szechuanella sp." = Pseudocalymene
"Szechuanella sp." = Pseudocalymene Pillet 1974 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Tetralobulidae
"Thaumatrophia sp." = Imbricatia
"Thaumatrophia sp." = Imbricatia
 Orthida - Orthidae
Cephalopoda
 Multiceratoidea - Cyclostomiceratidae