Boulongour section, Lower Member, lower lower part (Devonian of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (46.7° N, 86.1° E: paleocoordinates 23.5° N, 61.8° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: crepida - marginifera zone, Lower Member (Hongguleleng Formation), Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone and shale

• Gray, thin-bedded shelly ls, calcarenites, crinoidal ls, intercalated shale.

Primary reference: N. G. Lane, J. A. Waters, and C. G. Maples. 1997. Echinoderm faunas of the Hongguleleng Formation, Late Devonian (Famennian), Xinjiang-Uyger Autonomous Region, People''s Republic of China. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 71(S47):1-43 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3558: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 04.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
Cyrtospirifer sphaeroids
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Sulcatospirifer sp.