Where: China (33.0° N, 106.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.6° N, 132.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nancheng Formation, Hirnantian (445.6 - 443.7 Ma)

• upper part of Nancheng Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified shale and lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Li and S. Kershaw. 2003. Reef Reconstruction after Extinction Events of the Latest Ordovician in the Yangtze Platform, South China. Facies 48:269-284 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61386: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.06.2006