Meter 300 Early Devonian fauna from the basal Tangding Fm, Luofo China (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (22.0° N, 108.0° E: paleocoordinates 3.7° N, 126.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nowakia subtilis zone, Tangding Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); bioturbated, black, gray, green mudstone

• "blackish grey to greenish grey mudstone, some mudstone beds are laminated, some are bioturbated, and other parts show small scale slumping in thin section."

Primary reference: K. Vogel, X. Han-kui, and F. Langenstrassen. 1989. Brachiopods and their relation to facies development in the lower and Middle Devonian of Nandan, Guangxi, South China. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 110:17-59 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27423: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 05.12.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Fauna is listed as present in Table 1.
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Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
Styliolinidae indet.
Styliolinidae indet. Grabau and Shimer 1910
 Nowakiida - Nowakiidae
Nowakia subtilis
Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda indet.
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites sp.
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
Pterochaenia sp.
Pterochaenia sp. Clarke 1904 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida -
Orthida indet.
Orthida indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1932
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Prokopia pygmaea, Eosophragmophora sinensis
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Aulacella sp.
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Muriferella sp., Dalmanellopsis sp.
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida -
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862
 Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Perichonetes sp.