Location 11 Horizon 3 (Ordovician of China)

Where: Heibei Provence, China (41.5° N, 118.1° E: paleocoordinates 7.2° S, 130.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Liangchiashan Formation, Canadian (485.4 - 457.3 Ma)

• Comprises 160-230 m , late Canadian

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone

• Light grey massive to thin-bedded limestones and dolomitic muddy limestones intercalated with calcareous shales and biocarenites

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: Trilobites only; Liangchiashan formation, location 11 horizon 3, Hebei provence, China

Primary reference: Z. Zhou and R. A. Fortey. 1986. Ordovician trilobites from north and northeastern China. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 192:157-210 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157262: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 11.06.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus cf. hinomotoensis
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
Omuliovia cf. ulrichi
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Strigigenalis sp.
Strigigenalis sp. Whittington and Ross 1953 trilobite