Liujing (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (22.9° N, 108.9° E: paleocoordinates 1.4° N, 115.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mintang Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• 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 131968: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.08.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rothpletzella
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Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella problematica Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Ulvophyceae
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Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae