Near Hoxtolgay village (Devonian of China)
Where: Xinjiang, China (46.6° N, 86.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.3° N, 62.0° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hongguleleng Formation, Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
• "...a few limestone beds, which yielded the fossils.." Author also lists as present lithotypes: "yellowish brown, purplish red, grayish green tuffaceous sandstone and conglomerate, siliceous siltstone." These are apparently alternating marine and continental facies.
Primary reference: L. -W. Xiang. 1981. Some Late Devonian trilobites of China. Special Paper Geological Society of America 187:183-191 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3961: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 12.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Coral, brachiopods, trilobites, ammonoid, plant remains.
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| Cephalopoda | |
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Cymaclymenia sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Cyrtospirifer sp. Nalivkin 1924 | |
| Strophomenata | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Nalivkinella sp. Soshkina 1939 horn coral | |
| Leptophloeum rhombicum | |
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