Unit 27, Yanheganxi and Yanhe: Llanvirn, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Protocycloceroides sp.
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827
Cephalopoda - Lituitida - Sinoceratidae
Rhynchorthoceras sp. Remelé 1882
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932
Cephalopoda - Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Dideroceras sp. Flower 1950
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Clarkellidae
Yangtzeella sp. Kolarova 1925
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Orthidae
Sinorthis sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guizhou
Coordinates: 29.0° North, 109.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.8° North, 134.3° 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:Fengdonggang
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black,gray lithified "limestone"
Environment:deep subtidal shelf
Geology comments: Blackish to dark gray medium to thick limestone
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Unit 27, Fengdonggan Fm., Yanheganxi and Yanhe, Guizhou Prov., China
Database number:4753
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-18 20:05:32 Last modified:2018-05-14 00:12:00
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-18 20:05:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

288. R. Wang. 1981. Stratigraphic Summary of the Southwestern Region of China. Institute of Geology and Mine Deposit at Chengdu, Ministry of Geology (not published, copy of article deposited with A. I. Miller at the University of Cincinnati, received through S. Mao) 14-61 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]