YeLi Fm., YangQu Co., ShanXi Prov., China ( of China)

Where: ShanXi, China (38.0° N, 113.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.8° S, 133.6° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Yeli Formation, Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic, gray, yellow, cherty/siliceous lime mudstone and dolomite

• gray to grayish yellow to grayish green mud limestone and dolomite with chert and dolomitic shale

Primary reference: North China Stratigraphic Group. 1979. Regional Stratigraphic Table of North China. Branch of HeBei Province and TianJin City 250-260 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8003: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 11.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphellus sp.
Asaphellus sp. Callaway 1877 trilobite
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Stereoplasmoceratidae
Stereoplasmoceras sp.
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Ecculiomphalus sp., Ophileta sp.
Ecculiomphalus sp. Portlock 1843 snail
Ophileta sp. Vanuxem 1842 snail
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Obolus sp.
Obolus sp. Eichwald 1829
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Dendrograptidae
Dendrograptus sp.
Dendrograptus sp. Hall 1858 graptolite
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Callograptus sp.
Callograptus sp. graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp.
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite