Rao Cai, lower Quy Dat Beds (Devonian to of Vietnam)

Where: Vietnam (17.9° N, 105.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 3.5° S, 89.4° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Quy Dat Formation, Eifelian to Eifelian (393.5 - 382.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Tong-Dzuy, T. H. Dang, D. H. Nguyen, D. K. Nguyen, H. H. Nguyen, T. D. Nguyen, H. P. Ta, K. N. Pham, and N. T. Doan. 1988. Stratigrafiya i tselenteraty Dewona W'etnama, 1: Stratigrafiya [Devonian stratigraphy and coelenterata of Vietnam, 1: Stratigraphy] 5-184 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83339: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.08.2008

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Tentaculita
 Volynitida - Volynitidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
 Terebratulida - Stringocephalidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
Stromatoporoidea
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Clathrocoilona obliterata Lecompte 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
 Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Pachytheca abdita chaetetid sponge
Pachytheca alexeikimi chaetetid sponge
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Coenitidae
Coenites multus tabulate coral
Coenites dubatolovi tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites admirabilis tabulate coral
Crassialveolites crassus tabulate coral
Scoliopora dubrovensis tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora polygonalis tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites ataiformis tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
"Sinospongophyllum conicum" = Tabulophyllum, "Sinospongophyllum planotabulatum" = Tabulophyllum
"Sinospongophyllum conicum" = Tabulophyllum horn coral
"Sinospongophyllum planotabulatum" = Tabulophyllum horn coral
 Stauriida - Endophyllidae
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae