HuangNiGang Fm., LongTan, TongLu Co., ZheJiang Prov., China (Ordovician to of China)

Where: ZheJiang, China (30.0° N, 120.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.9° N, 126.8° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Huangnigang Formation, Actonian to Actonian (454.0 - 449.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary, ferruginous, gray, calcareous mudstone

• gray mudstone with calcareous iron nodules

Primary reference: Stratigraphic Group of Zhejiang, China. 1979. Regional stratigraphic table of Eastern China, Zhejiang Province. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7779: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.06.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Catazyga sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Phragmolites sp. Conrad 1838 snail
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Nankinolithus sp. Lu 1957 trilobite
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
Cyclopyge sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
"Basiliella sp." = Basilicus (Basiliella) Kobayashi 1934 trilobite
Birmanites sp. Sheng 1934 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus Koroleva 1959 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Trinodus sp. M'Coy 1846