YangWaShan Fm., LangXi, JiangDe Co., ZheJiang Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: ZheJiang, China (29.0° N, 119.0° E: paleocoordinates 3.7° N, 127.0° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Yanwashan Formation, Caradoc (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, concretionary, shelly/skeletal limestone

• nodular limestone with fine shell debris

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 7810: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 02.06.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus Koroleva 1959 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Corrugatagnostus sp. Kobayashi 1939
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932
Sinoceras sp. Shimizu et al. 1935