Lowermost section, NingGuo Fm., LangXi, JiangDe Co., ZheJiang Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: ZheJiang, China (29.0° N, 119.0° E: paleocoordinates 9.3° N, 134.2° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ningguo Formation, Ningkuo (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black, silty, cherty/siliceous shale

• black silty shale with a calcareous cherty bed at top

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 7814: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 02.06.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Phyllograptidae
Tetragraptus sp. Salter 1863 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae