Unit 23, Zhitai Fm., Yanheganxi and Yanhe, Guizhou Prov., China: Arenig, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Encrinurella sp. Reed 1915
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Megalaspides sp. Brögger 1886
Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Archaeorthidae
Nothorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1938
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Lepidorthis sp.
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Mimella sp. Cooper 1930
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Finkelnburgiidae
Diparelasma sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Clarkellidae
Yangtzeella sp. Kolarova 1925
Strophomenata - Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Polytoechia sp.
Martellia sp. Wirth 1936
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
Glyptograptus sp.
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guizhou
Coordinates: 29.0° North, 109.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.5° North, 138.4° East
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
*Period:Early/Lower Ordovician *Epoch:Late/Upper Arenig
Key time interval:Arenig
Age range of interval:477.70000 - 468.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Zhitai
Local section:23
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green,yellow lithified "shale"
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: Yellowish green mica shale with sandbelts at the bottom
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Database number:4757
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-19 07:26:20 Last modified:1999-08-19 10:26:20
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:23
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]