Unit 33, Meitan Fm., Lower Mbr., Honghauyuan and Tongzi, Guizhou Prov., China (Ordovician of China)
Where: Guizhou, China (28.0° N, 107.0° E: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 138.7° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Meitan Formation), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, silty shale and limestone
• shale, limestone and siltstone
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
PaleoDB collection 5263: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 12.09.1999