Luofu (Bed 39) [Daihua Fm] (Devonian of China)

Where: China (25.0° N, 107.5° E: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 109.5° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Daihua Formation, Early/Lower Famennian (376.1 - 370.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Daihua Fm (Frasnian-Famennian), for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Early Famennian, on the basis of conodont biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed 39 in Luofu section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: nodular, gray limestone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Grey thin-bedded nodular limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Li in 1990's

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTOR: Presumably the author Y.X. Li, 1990's. REPOSITORY: illustratedin this reportare depositedin the collectionsof the Wuhan Institute of ChemicalTechnology, Wuhan City, China

Primary reference: Y. X. Li. 2000. Famennian Tentaculitids of China. Journal of Paleontology 74(5):969-975 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162325: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for tenticulita. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Ostracoda
 Cypridinida - Bolbozoidae
Entomozoe sp. Pribyl 1950 ostracod
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Palmatolepidae
Palmatolepis sp. Müller 1956 conodont