ChangWu Fm., HuiShan, ChangShan Co., ZheJiang Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: ZheJiang, China (28.0° N, 118.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.9° N, 124.1° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Changwu Formation, Pusgillian (449.5 - 449.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, black, gray sandstone and limestone

• fine-grained, feldspar and quuartz-rich sandstone, mudstone, and grayish black limestone

Primary reference: Stratigraphic Group of Zhejiang, China. 1979. Regional stratigraphic table of Eastern China, Zhejiang Province. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7777: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.06.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Dicranograptidae
Dicellograptus sp. Hopkinson 1871 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
Orthograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
Amplexograptus sp. graptolite
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Palaeophyllum sp. Billings 1858 horn coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Streptelasma sp. Hall 1847 horn coral
 Favositida - Agetolitidae
Agetolites sp. Sokolov 1955 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Taeniolitidae
Taeniolites sp. Bondarenko 1961 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Stelliporellidae
Stelliporella sp. Wentzel 1895 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Plasmoporellidae
Neowormsipora sp. Lin and Chow 1977 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral