DaTianBa Fm., LiTing, ShiTai Co., AnHui Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: AnHui, China (30.0° N, 117.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.7° N, 129.7° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Datianba Formation, Llandeilo (461.1 - 458.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• gray purplish gray 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 7851: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 04.06.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Lituitida - Lituitidae
Lituites sp. Bertrand 1763
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932