Gennaren section (Devonian of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (46.7° N, 86.2° E: paleocoordinates 24.3° N, 61.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wulan Member (Hongguleleng Formation), Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• About 1 m above the base of unit 34

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, red, sandy 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 172436: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.08.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Clymeniida - Gonioclymeniidae
Gonioclymenia sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite