Upper section, DaWan Fm., TangShan, JiangNin Co., JiangSu Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: JiangSu, China (32.0° N, 119.0° E: paleocoordinates 7.9° N, 136.9° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, gray, green, yellow shale and lime mudstone

• grayish yellow to grayish green shale and muddy 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 7933: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 08.06.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Tetraprioniodus sp. Lindstrom 1955 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Oistodontidae
Oistodus sp. Pander 1856 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Drepanodus sp. Pander 1856 conodont
Scolopodus sp. conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Paltodus sp. Pander 1856 conodont
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Clarkellidae
Yangtzeella sp. Kolarova 1925
 Orthida - Draboviidae
 Orthida - Paurorthidae
Virgoria sp. Neuman 1976
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
 Orthida - Archaeorthidae
Nothorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1938
 Orthida - Orthidae
Taphrorthis sp. Cooper 1956
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
"Protoskenidiodes sp." = Protoskenidioides
"Protoskenidiodes sp." = Protoskenidioides Williams 1974