Arenig section, JiaChun Fm., Mt. Everest, DingJi, Tibet (Ordovician of China)

Where: Tibet, China (29.0° N, 87.0° E: paleocoordinates 29.0° N, 87.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: JiaChun Group, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified, sandy siltstone

• Limestone interbedded with sandy siltstone

Primary reference: Stratigraphic Group of GanSu, QingHai, and Tibet Provinces. 1980. Regional Stratigraphic Table of China: Gansu, Qinghai, and Tibet Provinces [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23605: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 17.07.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
"Eucalymene sp." = Pseudocalymene
"Eucalymene sp." = Pseudocalymene Pillet 1974 trilobite
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida -
Paradnatoceras sp.
 Actinocerida - Polydesmiidae
Ordosoceras sp.
Ordosoceras sp. Chang 1959
 Bisonocerida - Manchuroceratidae
Manchuroceras sp.
Manchuroceras sp. Ozaki 1927
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Dideroceras sp.
Dideroceras sp. Flower 1950
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites sp.
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail