Bed 81 of Wuzhishan Fm, Lali, S. China, Famennian (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (24.5° N, 108.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 105.7° E)

When: latest marginifera zone, Wuzhishan Formation, Middle Famennian (370.6 - 364.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; gray limestone

• "about 1.3m thick, grey to light grey thin bedded nodular limestones"

Primary reference: Q. Ji and W. Ziegler. 1993. The Lali Section: An Excellent Reference Section for Upper Devonian in South China. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 157:1-182 [A. Miller/J. Sessa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12734: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 28.11.2001

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Taxonomic list

• Taxa are listed as present in text.
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
"Polygnathus communis" = Neopolygnathus communis
"Polygnathus communis" = Neopolygnathus communis Branson and Mehl 1934 conodont
Polygnathus communis dentatus
 Ozarkodinida - Palmatolepidae
Palmatolepis marginifera conodont
Palmatolepis marginifera marginifera
Palmatolepis perlobata conodont
Palmatolepis perlobata helmsi
Palmatolepis glabra Ulrich and Bassler 1926 conodont
Palmatolepis glabra distorta
Palmatolepis glabra Ulrich and Bassler 1926 conodont
Palmatolepis glabra pectinata