Dawan Fm., HuangLing, Hubei Provinces, China (Ordovician of China)

Where: Hubei, China (31.0° N, 111.0° E: paleocoordinates 14.2° N, 139.6° 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, concretionary, glauconitic, green, yellow limestone and shale

• yellowish green nodular limestone and shale with purplish red limestone and grayish white limestone with green shale, occasionally glauconitic

Primary reference: Stratigraphic Group of Central South China. 1974. Regional stratigraphic data of central South China. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7727: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 31.05.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
 Billingsellida - Clitambonitidae
Clitambonites sp. Pander 1830
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Clarkellidae
Yangtzeella sp. Kolarova 1925
 Pentamerida - Porambonitidae
Porambonites sp. Pander 1830
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Orthida - Paurorthidae
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Mimella sp. Cooper 1930
 Orthida - Orthidae
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Lepidorthis sp. Wang 1955
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Ophileta sp. Vanuxem 1842 snail
Ecculiomphalus sp. Portlock 1843 snail
Cephalopoda
 Endocerida - Proterocameroceratidae
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Cameroceras sp. Conrad 1842
Vaginoceras sp. Hyatt 1884
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isoteloides sp. Raymond 1910 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Hanchungolithus sp. Lu 1956 trilobite
Nankinolithus sp. Lu 1957 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Dictyonema sp. Hall 1851 graptolite
Acanthograptus sp. graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite
Azygograptus sp. Nicholson and Lapworth 1875 graptolite
Schizograptus sp. graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Phyllograptidae
Phyllograptus sp. Hall 1858 graptolite
Tetragraptus sp. Salter 1863 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
Glyptograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite