Nanbiancun (Bed 55) [Rongxian Fm] (Devonian of China)

Where: China (25.3° N, 110.3° E: paleocoordinates 2.2° S, 100.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Siphonodella praesulcata conodont zone, Rongxian Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Rongxian Fm (Givetian-Tournaisian), which overlies the Tangjiawan Fm (Givetian) AGE: Devonian, late Famennian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed 55, immediately on Devonian side of -Devonian-Carboniferousboundary.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Coquina limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,

• COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.

Primary reference: D. Chen. 2010. Devonian-Carboniferous Carbonates around Guilin, South China: Stratigraphy and Sedimentology. 2010 IGCP – 580 Meeting November 28-December 4 Guilin, South China: Applications of Magnetic Susceptibility on Paleozoic Rocks 1-29 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 162314: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for macro fossils. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
unclassified
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Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
"Polygnathus communis" = Neopolygnathus communis Branson and Mehl 1934 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Palmatolepidae
 Ozarkodinida - Idiognathodontidae
"Protognathus meischneri" = Protognathodus meischneri, "Protognathus kocki" = Protognathodus kockeli
"Protognathus meischneri" = Protognathodus meischneri Ziegler 1969 conodont
Misspelled mischneri here (but correct in bed 57)
"Protognathus kocki" = Protognathodus kockeli Bischoff 1957 conodont
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
"Unispirifer tornacensis" = Atylephorus tornacensis de Koninck 1883
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
Cyrtospirifer sp. Nalivkin 1924
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Spiriferinida - Dimegelasmidae
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Palaeolima "sp. A" Hind 1903 file clam
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
Pterinopecten sp. Hall 1883 scallop
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Perliproetus sp. Richter 1927 trilobite
Demospongiae
 Tabulospongida -