Unit 3, Tongzhi Fm., Honghuayuan and Tongzhi, Guizhou Prov., China: Tremadoc, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Eocrinoidea - Imbricata
Imbricata indet. Sprinkle 1973
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Psilocephalina sp. Hsu 1948
Asaphellus sp. Callaway 1877
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guizhou
Coordinates: 28.0° North, 107.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.4° North, 143.4° East
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian-Ordovician
*Period:Early/Lower Ordovician *Epoch:Early/Lower Tremadoc
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Tremadoc
Key time interval:Tremadoc
Age range of interval:485.00000 - 477.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tongzi
Local section:3
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified argillaceous "limestone"
Secondary lithology: mudstone
Lithology description: muddy limestone and shale
Environment:deep subtidal shelf
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:species names
Metadata
Database number:5282
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-09-12 18:10:28 Last modified:1999-09-12 21:10:28
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:25
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]