Meter 2320 Early Devonian fauna from the middle Tangxiang Fm, Luofo China (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (22.5° N, 108.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 4.5° S, 84.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nowakia holycera zone, Tangxiang Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); mudstone

• "nearly pure shales containing no carbonate...unweathered sediment is a calcareous clay...finely laminated"

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 27534: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 10.12.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Fauna is listed as present in Table 1.
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Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Trilobita
 Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
Aulacopleura sp.
Aulacopleura sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacopidae indet.
Phacopidae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Glassiidae
"Cryptatrypa sp." = Glassia
"Cryptatrypa sp." = Glassia Davidson 1881
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoeliidae indet.
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
Reticulariopsis sp.
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Plectospira sp.
Plectospira sp. Cooper 1942
 Athyridida -
Athyridacea indet.
Athyridacea indet. M'Coy 1884
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Strophochonetes sp., Perichonetes sp.
Strophochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962
 Strophomenida -
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Plectodonta (Plectodonta) orientalis n. sp.
Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
Styliolinidae indet.
Styliolinidae indet. Grabau and Shimer 1910
 Nowakiida - Nowakiidae
Nowakia holyocera
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
Pterochaenia sp.
Pterochaenia sp. Clarke 1904 clam
Cephalopoda
  -
Cephalopoda indet.
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
 Agoniatitida - Anarcestidae
Anarcestidae indet.
Anarcestidae indet. Steinmann 1890 ammonite
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet.
Rugosa indet. horn coral