Unit 8, Meitan Fm., Huanghuachong Wudang, Guizhou Prov., China (Ordovician of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (27.0° N, 107.0° E: paleocoordinates 19.1° N, 137.8° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• limestone

Primary reference: R. Wang. 1981. Stratigraphic Summary of the Southwestern Region of China. Institute of Geology and Mine Deposit at Chengdu, Ministry of Geology (not published, copy of article deposited with A. I. Miller at the University of Cincinnati, received through S. Mao) 14-61 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7356: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 23.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Cameroceras sp.
Cameroceras sp. Conrad 1842
 Endocerida - Cyrtendoceratidae
Cyrtovaginoceras sp.
Cyrtovaginoceras sp. Kobayashi 1934
 Actinocerida -
Hopeioceras sp.
Hopeioceras sp. Shimuzu and Obata 1936
Radiocyatha
  - Soanitidae
Calathium sp.
Calathium sp. Billings 1865