ChangKengShui Fm., XingChang, GuangDong Province, China: Llanvirn, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Dicranograptidae
Dicellograptus sp. Hopkinson 1871
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Glossograptidae
Glossograptus sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:GuangDong County:TaiShan
Coordinates: 22.0° North, 112.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.1° North, 126.7° East
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Middle Ordovician
10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 2-3
*Period:Middle Ordovician *Epoch:Llanvirn
Key time interval: Llanvirn
Age range of interval: 468.4 - 458.4 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Changkengshui
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow lithified argillaceous,silty "shale"
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Environment:submarine fan
Geology comments: Yellow thin-bedded muddy shale with fine-grained quartz sandstone and grey-black, thin, carbonaceous and siliceous shale
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:4673
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-15 15:33:02 Last modified:1999-08-15 18:33:02
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

286. R. Jin and S. Cai. 1988. Regional Geology of GuangDong Province. Special Publication of China Minister of Geology and Mining, No.9. Geology Publishing House 1-? [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]