MH 10. Muhua Section (Carboniferous of China)

Also known as GM 23 & GM 24

Where: Guizhou, China (25.8° N, 106.4° E: paleocoordinates 5.3° S, 102.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Siphonodella sulcata conodont zone, Wangyou Formation, Hastarian (358.9 - 353.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, argillaceous limestone

• grey to dark grey medium bedded argillaceous limestone intercalated with grey thin bedded argillaceous limestone as well as inserted with grey lenticular limestone at the base, yielding abundant conodonts

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. Yuan and L.-W. Xiang. 1998. Trilobite fauna at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in South China (S-Guizhou and N-Guangxi). 8:1-281 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 218954: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.03.2021

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Winterbergia (Eowinterbergia) superna
Winterbergia (Eowinterbergia) superna Chlupáč 1966 trilobite
Winterbergia (Eowinterbergia) superna sinica
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Siphonodella sulcata, Siphonodella duplicata, Siphonodella lobata, Siphonodella praesulcata, Siphonodella obsoleta, Siphonodella cooperi