Unit 38, Baota Fm., Huanghuachong Wudang, Guizhou Prov., China: Harnagian - Soudleyan, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Tarphycerida - Trocholitidae
Discoceras sp. Barrande 1867
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guizhou
Coordinates: 27.0° North, 107.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.5° North, 131.2° East
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Sandbian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4
*Period:Late/Upper Ordovician *Epoch:Middle Caradoc - Late/Upper Caradoc
*International age/stage:Harnagian - Soudleyan *Local age/stage:Early/Lower - Middle Baoto
Key time interval:Harnagian - Soudleyan
Age range of interval:458.40000 - 457.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Baota
Local section:38
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: limestone
Environment:offshore shelf
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:species names
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:7337
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-05-23 15:43:40 Last modified:2000-05-23 18:43:40
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]