FengXiang Fm., SanYuanZhi, Chu Co., AnHui Prov., China ( of China)

Where: AnHui, China (32.0° N, 118.0° E: paleocoordinates 11.3° N, 141.3° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Fengxiang Formation, Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, concretionary, gray, yellow, cherty/siliceous limestone and shale

• gray limestone, occasionally with siliceous nodules and with yellow to yellowish green to purple shale in lower sections

Primary reference: Stratigraphic Group of AnHui, China. 1978. Regional stratigraphic table of Eastern China, AnHui Province. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7831: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 04.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae
Tungtzuella sp. Lu 1957 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Psilocephalina sp. Hsu 1948 trilobite
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Tetralobulidae
 Pentamerida - Clarkellidae
 Orthida - Eoorthidae
Apheoorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Tritoechia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Dictyonema sp. Hall 1851 graptolite