Xiaohuoshan quarry, north slope of Jilong Mountain (Devonian of China)

Where: Jiangsu, China (31.3° N, 120.0° E: paleocoordinates 9.6° S, 98.6° E)

When: Leigutai Member (Wutung Formation), Late/Upper Devonian (382.7 - 358.9 Ma)

• Lower part of Leigutai member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; medium-grained, gray, white sandstone and lenticular, white mudstone

• composed of medium to thick-bedded grayish-white quartz sandstones intercalated with lenticular white mudstones.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: C. M. Berry, Y. Wang, and C. Cai. 2003. A Lycopsid with Novel Reproductive Structures from the Upper Devonian of Jiangsu, China. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164(2):263-273 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209613: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 06.05.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Equisetopsida
 Sphenophyllales -
Sphenophyllum sp. König 1825
Sublepidodendron
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Stigmaria ficoides
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Stigmaria ficoides Sternberg 1822
Lycopsida
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Wuxia bistrobilata n. gen. n. sp.
 Coniferales -