Bed 43 of Xiangtian Fm, Lali, S. China, Frasnian (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (24.5° N, 108.3° E: paleocoordinates 0.3° S, 111.9° E)

When: linguiformis zone, Xiangtian Formation, Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; gray lime mudstone

• "about 2.4m thick, grey thin bedded micritic limestones with well developed suture lines"

Collection methods: Conodonts are listed as "rich" in text, while tentaculites are listed as rare (R).

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 12955: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 12.01.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Tentaculita
 Homoctenida - Homoctenidae
Homoctenus ultimis, Homoctenus sp.
Homoctenus ultimis
Homoctenus ultimis pergracilis
Homoctenus sp. Ljaschenko 1955
Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Icriodontidae
Icriodus alternatus
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Ancyrodella ioides, Polygnathus tenellus n. sp.
Polygnathus tenellus n. sp. conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Palmatolepidae
Palmatolepis linguiformis, Palmatolepis juntianensis, Palmatolepis ederi, Palmatolepis rhenana, Palmatolepis hassi, Palmatolepis subrecta
Palmatolepis rhenana conodont
Palmatolepis rhenana nasuta
Palmatolepis subrecta Miller and Youngquist 1947 conodont