Lower section, Baota (Pagoda) Fm., Dalin-HongJia, GuiChi Co., AnHui Prov., China (Ordovician to of China)

Where: AnHui, China (31.0° N, 117.0° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° N, 129.6° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Baota Formation, Longvillian to Longvillian (457.2 - 454.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, gray limestone

• gray to light purple mudcracked limestone

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 7850: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 04.06.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Dideroceras sp. Flower 1950
 Ellesmerocerida - Protocycloceratidae
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
 Lituitida - Lituitidae
Lituites sp. Bertrand 1763