Upper section, GuNiuTan Fm., GaoLunChun, JuRong Co., JiangSu Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

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

• Paleocoordinates: 31.1° N, 84.6° E (Wright 2013)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Guniutan Formation, Late/Upper Llanvirn (463.5 - 460.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• gray to grayish yellow mud 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 7938: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 08.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Archiageisonoceras sp.
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida -
Paradnatoceras sp.
 Lituitida - Sinoceratidae
Rhynchorthoceras sp.
Rhynchorthoceras sp. Remelé 1882
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Dideroceras sp.
Dideroceras sp. Flower 1950
Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Spondylotreta sp.
Spondylotreta sp. Cooper 1956
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Harknessellidae
Horderleyella sp.
Horderleyella sp. Bancroft 1928
 Orthida - Archaeorthidae
Nothorthis sp.
Nothorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1938
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Lepidorthis sp.
Lepidorthis sp. Wang 1955
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Skenidioides sp.
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931