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

Show authors, comments, and common names
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
Climacograptus sp.
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
Orthograptus sp., Diplograptus sp.
Orthograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
Diplograptus sp. graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dicranograptidae
Dicellograptus sp.
Dicellograptus sp. Hopkinson 1871 graptolite
Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
Triarthrus sp.
Triarthrus sp. Green 1832 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Cyclocoeliidae
Cyclocoelia sp.
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
Sericoidea sp.
Sericoidea sp. Lindström 1953