Dushan (Devonian to of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (25.8° N, 107.5° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 115.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lujiazhai or Hejiazhai Member (Wangchengpo Formation), Early/Lower Frasnian to Early/Lower Frasnian (383.7 - 379.5 Ma)

• One of two members.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• bioclastic packstone-grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: Q. Feng, Y. M. Gong, and R. Riding. 2010. Mid-Late Devonian calcified marine algae and cyanobacteria, south China. Journal of Paleontology 84(4):569-587 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131966: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.08.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Life -
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
Ulvophyceae
  -
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Rothpletzella
  -
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Garwoodia sp. Wood 1941
Bevocastria
  -
Bevocastria sp. Garwood 1931
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella problematica Nicholson and Etheridge 1878