Lower section, LunShan Fm., LunShan, JuRong Co., JiangSu Prov., China ( of China)

Where: JiangSu, China (32.0° N, 119.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 140.8° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic, gray limestone

• gray to grayish purple to light gray dolomitic limestone

Primary reference: X. Chen, T. E. Chen, X. P. Zhou, J. Y. Qiu, Y. N. Ni and X. C. Yang. 1988. Ordovician system of the Lower Yangtze region in Jiangsu Province. Sinian-Triassic biostratigraphy of the Lower Yangtze peneplatform in Jiangsu Region 81-126 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7880: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 05.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Dendrograptidae
Dendrograptus sp.
Dendrograptus sp. Hall 1858 graptolite
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Dictyonema sp.
Dictyonema sp. Hall 1851 graptolite
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Hungaiidae
Dactylocephalus sp.
Dactylocephalus sp. Hsu 1948 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
"Szechuanella sp." = Pseudocalymene
"Szechuanella sp." = Pseudocalymene Pillet 1974 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Tetralobulidae
Imbricatia sp.
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Nanorthis sp.
Nanorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936