Unit 8, Gaodongkou Fm., Dongpo Emeishan, Sichuan Prov., China: Arenig, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Cameroceras sp. Conrad 1842
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Sichuan
Coordinates: 30.0° North, 103.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.1° North, 142.6° East
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
*Period:Early/Lower Ordovician *Epoch:Early/Lower Arenig
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Arenig
Key time interval:Arenig
Age range of interval:478.60000 - 466.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gaodongkou
Local section:8
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Lithology description: quartzitic sandstone
Environment:foreshore
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:species names
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:7279
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-05-22 16:54:28 Last modified:2000-05-22 19:54:28
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:34
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]