Unit 31, Lenshuigou Fm., Lenshuigou Wenshan, Yunnan Prov., China (Ordovician to of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (23.0° N, 104.0° E: paleocoordinates 19.3° N, 129.7° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lenshuigou Formation, Costonian to Costonian (458.4 - 457.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified siltstone and mudstone

• siltstone and mudstone

Primary reference: R. Wang. 1981. Stratigraphic Summary of the Southwestern Region of China. Institute of Geology and Mine Deposit at Chengdu, Ministry of Geology (not published, copy of article deposited with A. I. Miller at the University of Cincinnati, received through S. Mao) 14-61 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

PaleoDB collection 5425: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 02.10.1999

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Zigzagigraptus sp.
Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Dendrograptidae
Desmograptus sp.
Desmograptus sp. graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
Pseudoclimacograptus sp.
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
Orthograptus sp., Amplexograptus sp.
Orthograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
Amplexograptus sp. graptolite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Leptellina sp.
Leptellina sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Howellites sp.
Howellites sp. Bancroft 1945
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
"Pharostoma sp." = Prionocheilus, Reedocalymene sp., "Calymenesum sp." = Calymenesun
"Pharostoma sp." = Prionocheilus Rouault 1847 trilobite
Reedocalymene sp. Kobayashi 1951 trilobite
"Calymenesum sp." = Calymenesun Kobayashi 1951 trilobite
Ostracoda
 Hollinocopida - Euprimitiidae
Euprimitia sp.
 Podocopida - Bythocyprididae
Bythocypris sp.
Bythocypris sp. Brady 1880 ostracod