Tangchi Fm., YuangJiang-ShiPin, YuanJiang Co., YunNan Prov., China (Ordovician of China)
Where: YunNan, China (24.0° N, 102.0° E: paleocoordinates 27.7° N, 143.6° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Tangchi Formation, Tremadoc (488.3 - 478.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, green, yellow siltstone and mudstone
• purplish-red to purple to yellowish green shale, siltstone, and mudstone
Primary reference: Stratigraphic Group of Yunnan, China. 1978. Regional stratigraphic data of Southwest China, Yunnan Province. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall] more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 7733: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 31.05.2000