Middle section, BaoTa (Pagoda) Fm., GuaBaoYan, NanZheng Co., ShanXi Prov., Chin (Ordovician to of China)

Where: ShanXi, China (33.0° N, 106.0° E: paleocoordinates 11.3° N, 136.2° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Baota Formation, Longvillian to Longvillian (457.2 - 454.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• nodular limestone

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 7884: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 05.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Tarphycerida - Trocholitidae
Discoceras sp.
Discoceras sp. Barrande 1867
 Orthocerida - Baltoceratidae
Bactroceras sp.
Bactroceras sp. Holm 1898
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp., Michelinoceras sp., Sinoceras sp., Ctenoceras sp.
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932
Sinoceras sp. Shimizu et al. 1935
Ctenoceras sp. Noetling 1884
 Lituitida - Lituitidae
Lituites sp.
Lituites sp. Bertrand 1763
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp.
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Proetida - Telephinidae
Telephina sp.
Telephina sp. Marek 1952 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Lonchodomas sp.
Lonchodomas sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides sp.
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite