Where: Nei Mongol, China (45.6° N, 116.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 47.9° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Obotanhondi Formation, Pragian to Pragian (410.8 - 393.3 Ma)

• Late Siegenian to Emsian, lowest part, second part, and fourth part of five faunal divisions of the Obotanhondi Formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Primary reference: Y. Wang, A. J. Boucot, J.Y. Rong and X.C. Yang. 1987. Community paleoecology as a geologic tool: the Chinese Ashgillian-Eifelian (latest Ordovician through early Middle Devonian) as an example. Geological Society of America Special Paper 211:1-100 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25757: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 24.09.2002

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