Heping Village, Sect. 3, Loc. 13: Late/Upper Emsian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Echinospiriferidae
Glyptospirifer quadriplicatus
synonym of Howittia
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869
spp.
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869
sp. A
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841
sp. B
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea minuta
? Similoconcha sp. Zhang 1977
sp. A
    = Similiconcha informal sp. A Zhang 1977
Vokes 1980
Misspelling
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) producta
original and current combination Actinopteria
subgn. (Actinopteria)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon guangxiensis
Bivalvia - Sanguinolitidae
? Sanguinolites sp. M'Coy 1844
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiomorpha sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869
Bivalvia - Solenida - Orthonotidae
Orthonota guangdongensis
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Paracyclas rugosa
Bivalvia - Actinodontida - Crassatellopsidae
? Crassatellopsis sp. Beushausen 1895
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Sinodora semiglabra
Sinodora bisulcata
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guangxi County:Yongfu
Coordinates: 25.0° North, 110.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.2° South, 124.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Early/Lower Devonian
Stage:Emsian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 2
*Period:Early/Lower Devonian *Local age/stage:Sipaian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Emsian
Age range of interval:398.30000 - 393.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sipai
Local section:Heping Village 3 Local bed:13
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 90 m thick. [JA: originally entered as Emsian; Polygnathus inversus and P. serotinus are present in the lowest unit, so the entire formation is late Emsian]
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray argillaceous,calcareous "shale"
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: gray to grayish-white shale and calcareous shale intercalated with dark-gray argillaceous limestone.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:4796
Authorizer:J. Alroy, A. Hendy Enterer:M. Sommers, A. Hendy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-24 13:23:36 Last modified:2012-08-20 00:29:20
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
274. R. Zhang and J., J.r. Pojeta. 1986. Devonian sections in Guangxi from which pelecypods were collected. Devonian rocks and Lower and Middle pelecypods of Guangxi, China and the Traverse Group of Michigan. United States Geological Survery Professional Paper 1394(E):33-43 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

7411 H. E. Vokes. 1980. Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue. Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]