WuFeng Fm., GuaBaoYan, NanZheng Co., ShanXi Prov., China (Ordovician to of China)
Where: ShanXi, China (33.0° N, 106.0° E: paleocoordinates 9.2° N, 133.8° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Wufeng Formation, Wufeng to Wufeng (449.5 - 445.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, yellow, carbonaceous shale
• brownish yellow shale with cobalt, silica, carbon
Primary reference: Regional Stratigraphic Group of Shanxi Province. 1983. Regional stratigraphic table of Northwest China, Shanxi Province Part. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 7881: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 05.06.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pterobranchia | |
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid | |
Orthograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
Diplograptus sp. graptolite | |
Dicellograptus sp. Hopkinson 1871 graptolite | |
Trilobita | |
Triarthrus sp. Green 1832 trilobite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Strophomenata | |
Sericoidea sp. Lindström 1953 |