Where: SiChuan, China (27.0° N, 102.0° E: paleocoordinates 22.7° N, 140.6° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Hongsiya Formation, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, gray, argillaceous, silty sandstone and shale
Primary reference: X. Chen, T. E. Chen, X. P. Zhou, J. Y. Qiu, Y. N. Ni and X. C. Yang. 1988. Ordovician system of the Lower Yangtze region in Jiangsu Province. Sinian-Triassic biostratigraphy of the Lower Yangtze peneplatform in Jiangsu Region 81-126 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 7949: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 09.06.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Taihungshania sp. Sun 1931 trilobite | |
Psilocephalina sp. Hsu 1948 trilobite
Asaphellus sp. Callaway 1877 trilobite
Paramegalaspis sp. Thoral 1935 trilobite | |
Lingulata | |
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Orthis sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Pterobranchia | |
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite |