Miaomen, Guilin, South China (Devonian of China)

Also known as Reef 1608

Where: Guangxi, China (25.3° N, 110.1° E: paleocoordinates 2.2° S, 102.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yunghsien Formation, Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• Early to middle Famennian. Age based on conodonts

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bindstone and lithified rudstone

• Microbial reef

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: J.-W. Shen and G. E. Webb. 2004. Famennian (Upper Devonian) calcimicrobial (Renalcis) reef at Miaomen, Guilin, Guangxi, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 204:373-394 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38188: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 18.04.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Palmatolepidae
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Rothpletzella
  -
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Ortonella sp. Garwood 1914
Garwoodia sp. Wood 1941
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Hormogoneae
 Nostocales - Rivulariaceae
Rivularia sp. Agardh 1886
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
 Life -
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
Tharama
  -
cf. Tharama sp. Wray 1967
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906
Epiphyton
  - Ludloviaceae
"Epiphyton sp." = Epiphyton, "Paraepiphyton sp." = Epiphyton
"Epiphyton sp." = Epiphyton Bornemann 1886
"Paraepiphyton sp." = Epiphyton Bornemann 1886
Keega
  -
cf. Keega sp. Wray 1967
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -