Where: Jilin Provence, China (42.1° N, 126.7° E: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 139.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cordylodus intermedius conodont zone, Niuchehean (489.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Trilobites and Conodonts only, Collected in the Xiaoyangqiao Central section, collection 11B(1-2), 30m from the base of the formation

Primary reference: J.-W. Chen, Y.-Y. Qian, J.-M. Zhang, Y.-K. Lin, L.-M. Yin, Z.-H. Wang, Z.-Z. Wang, J.-D. Yang, and Y.-X. Wang. 1988. The recommended Cambrian - Ordovician global Boundry stratotype of the Xiaoyangqiao section (Dayangcha, Jilin Province), China. In W. B. Harland, C. P. Hughes, R. S. J. Sparks, N. H. Woodcock, I. N. McCave (eds.), Geological Magazine 125(4):415-444 [M. Hopkins/S. Mahmood/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156928: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 02.06.2014

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