Zhangmu section bed 24 (Devonian of China)

Also known as Grayina magnifica sinica Community

Where: Guangxi, China (23.3° N, 109.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 126.0° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Neomonograptus falcarius - Neomonograptus fanicus graptolite zone, Beijuntang Formation, Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• Overlain and underlain by graptolites of the Neomonograptus falcarius-N. fanicus Zone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, green, yellow mudstone

• The overlying beds change rapidly from mmudstone to current ripple marked sandstone with diagonal crossbedding

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 12930: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Carl Simpson on 10.01.2002, edited by Sarah Kolbe

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Zhangmuella elliptica n. gen. n. sp.
Zhangmuella elliptica n. gen. n. sp.
Graptolithina
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Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena "rhomboidalis" Wahlenberg 1818
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
"Grayina magnifica" = Anastrophia (Grayina)
"Grayina magnifica" = Anastrophia (Grayina)
G. magnifica sinica n. subsp.
 Spiriferida - Xenomartiniidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
 Atrypida - Carinatinidae
 Atrypida - Karpinskiidae
 Atrypida - Punctatrypidae
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
Spinatrypa sp. Stainbrook 1951
 Rhynchonellida - Machaerariidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral