Lower section, LunShan Fm., TangShan, JiangNin Co., JiangSu Prov., China ( of China)

Where: JiangSu, China (32.0° N, 118.0° E: paleocoordinates 11.3° N, 141.3° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lunshan Formation, Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, gray dolomite and limestone

• grayish white to dark gray dolomitic limestone and limestone

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 7921: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 08.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Dictyonema sp. Hall 1851 graptolite
Conodonta
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Drepanodus sp. Pander 1856 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Oneotodontidae
Oneotodus sp. Lindström 1955 conodont
 Paraconodontida -
Proacodus sp. Müller 1959 conodont
  - Distacodidae
Distacodus sp. Pander 1856 conodont
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
"Szechuanella sp." = Pseudocalymene
"Szechuanella sp." = Pseudocalymene Pillet 1974 trilobite
 Asaphida - Hungaiidae
Dactylocephalus sp. Hsu 1948 trilobite
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Obolus sp. Eichwald 1829
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Tetralobulidae
 Orthida - Eoorthidae
Apheoorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Nanorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Cephalopoda
 Endocerida - Proterocameroceratidae
Proterocameroceras sp. Ruedemann 1905