Upper section, DaWan Fm., SD-HSY-YL sect., Jin Co., AnHui Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: AnHui, China (31.0° N, 118.0° E: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 136.4° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Dawan Formation, Dawan (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• grayish white to grayish yellow limestone with bioclastic 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 7854: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 04.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Dideroceras sp.
Dideroceras sp. Flower 1950
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Tritoechia sp.
Tritoechia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Clarkellidae
Yangtzeella sp.
Yangtzeella sp. Kolarova 1925
 Orthida - Paurorthidae
Paurorthis sp.
Paurorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931