HuangYi Fm., LiuCheng, GuangXi Province, China (Ordovician of China)

Where: GuangXi, China (23.0° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 19.0° N, 132.7° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Huangyi Formation, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, silty sandstone and shale

• Sandstone and shale with some siltstone

Primary reference: J. H. MinSheng. 1985. Regional Geology of GuangXi ZhuangZu ZiZhi Zhou. Special Publication of China Minister of Geology and Mining, No.3. Geology Publishing House 1-? [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4670: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 15.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866
Westonia sp. Walcott 1901
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Homotreta sp. Bell 1941
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Phyllograptidae
Tetragraptus sp. Salter 1863 graptolite
Phyllograptus sp. Hall 1858 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Dichograptus sp. graptolite
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite