DPST 00. Dapoushang Section (Devonian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (25.8° N, 106.4° E: paleocoordinates 2.6° S, 103.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Very top of Famennian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, medium-grained, gray, argillaceous limestone and gray, yellow marl

• light grey medium bedded argillaceous limestone intercalated with yellowish grey to grey marlstone at the base, rich in conodonts and bearing a few ammonoids and trilobites, namely 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 234696: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 04.05.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
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 Ozarkodinida - Idiognathodontidae
Protognathodus kockeli Bischoff 1957 conodont
Protognathodus collinsoni Ziegler 1969 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Polygnathus subplanus conodont
Polygnathus purus subplanus
"Polygnathus communis" = Neopolygnathus communis Branson and Mehl 1934 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
Ozarkodina elegans Stauffer 1938 conodont
Hindeodella subtilis Bassler 1925 conodont
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops (Phacops) cf. guilinensis" = Phacops (Phacops) granulatus guilinensis
"Phacops (Phacops) cf. guilinensis" = Phacops (Phacops) granulatus guilinensis Zhu 1988 trilobite
Phacops (Phacops) cf. granulatus guilinensis