Qiaotingzi Fm., XiangTaoYuan, TaoJiang Co., Hunan Province, China (Ordovician of China)

Where: Hunan, China (29.0° N, 112.0° E: paleocoordinates 14.3° N, 137.0° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, gray, green, silty sandstone and shale

• gray purplish red sandstone and grayish green to yellowish green shale, occasionally silty in lower section

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 7711: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 31.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Janograptus sp., Dichograptus sp., Didymograptus sp.
Janograptus sp. graptolite
Dichograptus sp. graptolite
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Phyllograptidae
Tetragraptus sp., Phyllograptus sp.
Tetragraptus sp. Salter 1863 graptolite
Phyllograptus sp. Hall 1858 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Pterograptidae
Pseudobryograptus sp.
Pseudobryograptus sp. Mu 1957 graptolite
Malacostraca
 Archaeostraca - Caryocarididae
Caryocaris sp.
Caryocaris sp. Salter 1863