Mahang and Baling Fm (Dacryoconarida) (Devonian to of Thailand)

Where: Penang, Thailand (5.6° N, 101.0° E: paleocoordinates 9.6° N, 139.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mahang and Baling Formation, Early/Lower Devonian to Early/Lower Devonian (419.2 - 382.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, black shale and lithified, lenticular, argillaceous, calcareous limestone

• euxinic
• Miogeosynclinal euxinic facies

Preservation: recrystallized

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: C.K. Burton. 1967. Dacryoconarid tentaculites in the mid Paleozoic euxinic facies of the Malayan geosyncline. Journal of Paleontology 41(2):449-454 [A. Miller/J. Wittmer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78916: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jacalyn Wittmer on 19.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Trilobita
 Harpetida - Harpetidae
Harpes sp. Goldfuss 1839 trilobite
Tentaculita
 Nowakiida - Nowakiidae
 Nowakiida - Striatostyliolinidae
Metastyliolina sp. Boucek and Prantl 1961
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily