XZ448, Bulongguoer section (Devonian of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (46.8° N, 86.1° E: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 62.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wulan Member (Hongguleleng Formation), Middle Famennian (370.6 - 364.7 Ma)

• Bed 5-2

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, nodular, red limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Museum of Peking University

Primary reference: P. Zong, R. T. Becker, and X. P. Ma. 2015. Upper Devonian (Famennian) and Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian) ammonoids from western Junggar, Xinjiang, northwestern China - stratigraphy, taxonomy and palaeobiogeography. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 95:159-202 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172219: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Prionoceratidae
Prionoceras frechi Wedekind 1913 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Sporadoceratidae
Sporadoceras impressum n. sp. Becker and Zong 2015 ammonite
 Clymeniida - Platyclymeniidae