GH 7. Muhua Section (Devonian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (25.8° N, 106.4° E: paleocoordinates 2.5° S, 104.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: middle Siphonodella praesulcata conodont zone, Daihua Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, micaceous, nodular, gray limestone

• grey to dark grey thin to medium bedded nodular micritic limestone.

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 218957: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.03.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Mirabole (Mirabole) muhuaensis Yuan 1988 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacops (Phacops) granulatus Munster 1840 trilobite
Phacops (Phacops) granulatus guilinensis