Zhangmu Section bed 9 (Devonian of China)

Also known as Quadrithyris expansa-Prodavidsonia mirabilis Community

Where: Guangxi, China (23.3° N, 109.3° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 125.9° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Spathognathodus remscheidensis conodont zone, Beijuntang Formation, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• "Immediately below Monograptus hercynicus - Monograptus praehercynicus zone and above the Monograptus uniformis zone." PJW: the Monograptus praehercynicus zone comes after the Monograptus uniformis, so I am putting it at the boundary.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, yellow mudstone

• Overall environment appears to have been soft substrate, moderate depth, and quiet water.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Shipu, A. J. Boucot, and C. Wang. 1999. Early Devonian brachiopod and trace fossil communitires from southeastern Guangxi. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 139-163 [M. Foote/M. Foote/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12922: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.01.2002, edited by Carl Simpson and Sarah Kolbe

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Xenomartiniidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
 Atrypida - Punctatrypidae
 Atrypida - Karpinskiidae
 Atrypida - Carinatinidae
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Ostracoda
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Yulinella mirabilis n. gen. n. sp.
Yulinella mirabilis n. gen. n. sp. ostracod