Dawan Fm., DaTianBa, Xiushan County, Sichuan Prov., China: Dawan, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Hammatocnemis sp. Kielan 1960
synonym of Ovalocephalus
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Archaeorthidae
Nothorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1938
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Clarkellidae
Yangtzeella sp. Kolarova 1925
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
Glyptograptus sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Sichuan County:XiuShan
Coordinates: 29.0° North, 109.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.8° North, 138.9° East
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 1-2
*Period:Early/Lower Ordovician *Epoch:Arenig
*Local age/stage:Dawan
Key time interval:Dawan
Age range of interval:477.90000 - 466.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dawan
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandy "limestone"
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Lithology description: limestone, shale, and sandstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:species names
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:7659
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-05-30 13:13:23 Last modified:2001-08-16 13:10:39
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

485. Sichuan Stratigraphic Work Group. 1978. Regional stratigraphic table of the southwestern region of China, Sichuan part. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]