DaTianBa Mbr., BaoTa (Pagoda) Fm., GaoLunChun, JuRong Co., JiangSu Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: JiangSu, China (32.0° N, 119.0° E: paleocoordinates 3.0° N, 130.3° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: DaTianBa Member (Baota Formation), Longvillian (457.2 - 455.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• gray to yellowish gray mud limestone often with a web-structure (weathering?)

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 7937: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 08.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras sp.
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932
 Lituitida - Lituitidae
Lituites sp.
Lituites sp. Bertrand 1763