ammonites
Unit 32, 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: foreshore; lithified siltstone and sandstone

• siltstone and sandstone

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 7342: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 23.05.2000