Huaying Mnt, Baiyun’an Fm, Layer 2, collection 016 (Silurian to of China)

Where: China (30.2° N, 106.8° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° N, 129.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Baiyun’an Formation), Aeronian to Aeronian (440.8 - 433.4 Ma)

• upper Aeronian to lowerest Telychian

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; mudstone

• calcareous mudstone and purplish red mudstone with local grayish green mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G.-X. Wang, R.-B. Zhan, Z.-Q. Deng and J.-B. Liu. 2013. Paleoecological associations of middle Llandovery (Silurian) corals from Huaying Mountain, eastern Sichuan Province. Science China Earth Sciences 56(4):640-646 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164287: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 28.11.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida -
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Tryplasma sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Halysites guizhouensis tabulate coral
 Favositida - Multisoleniidae
Multisolenia tortuosa Fritz 1937 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Cladopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral