Guniutan Fm., BaMianShan, Hunan and Hubei Provinces, China (Ordovician of China)

Where: Hunan and Hubei, China (30.0° N, 111.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 132.3° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Guniutan Formation, Llandeilo (461.1 - 458.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, concretionary limestone

• purplish red, nodular limestone with mud cracks

Primary reference: Stratigraphic Group of Central South China. 1974. Regional stratigraphic data of central South China. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7716: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 31.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sp.
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Cephalopoda
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Dideroceras sp., Vaginoceras sp.
Dideroceras sp. Flower 1950
Vaginoceras sp. Hyatt 1884
 Endocerida - Proterocameroceratidae
Proterocameroceras sp.
Proterocameroceras sp. Ruedemann 1905
 Ellesmerocerida - Bathmoceratidae
Bathmoceras sp.
Bathmoceras sp. Barrande 1865
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras sp., Sinoceras sp.
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932
Sinoceras sp. Shimizu et al. 1935
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp.
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isoteloides sp.
Isoteloides sp. Raymond 1910 trilobite