HuangNiGang Fm., HengKuo, ZhuJi Co., ZheJiang Prov., China (Ordovician to of China)

Where: ZheJiang, China (30.0° N, 120.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.9° N, 126.8° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Huangnigang Formation, Actonian to Actonian (454.0 - 449.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, green, argillaceous, silty shale

• gray silty shale and grayish green, micaceous shale

Primary reference: Stratigraphic Group of Zhejiang, China. 1979. Regional stratigraphic table of Eastern China, Zhejiang Province. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7804: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 02.06.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Lecanospira sp. Butts 1926 snail
Ecculiomphalus sp. Portlock 1843 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
Chonetoidea sp. Jones 1928
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Eoplectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae
Christiania sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Nankinolithus sp. Lu 1957 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Shumardia sp. Billings 1862 trilobite
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
Cyclopyge sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus
"Hammatocnemis sp." = Ovalocephalus Koroleva 1959 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae