YuQian Fm., ShangLuoJia, LinAn Co., ZheJiang Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: ZheJiang, China (31.0° N, 120.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.4° S, 125.7° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Yuqian Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, gray, green, calcareous siltstone and shale

• grayish green siltstone with gray calcareous shale

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 7793: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 02.06.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Abrograptidae
Reteograptus sp. graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
Diplograptus sp. graptolite
Amplexograptus sp. graptolite
Orthograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid
Pseudoclimacograptus sp. climacograptid
 Graptoloidea - Dicranograptidae
Dicellograptus sp. Hopkinson 1871 graptolite
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Dictyonema sp. Hall 1851 graptolite