Where: Guangxi, China (22.4° N, 107.6° E: paleocoordinates 4.8° N, 126.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Liujing Member (Yujiang Formation), Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)

• 3 m thick.

•JA: originally entered as Emsian; the Yujiang Formation falls in the dehiscens zone according to the authors and is therefore early Emsian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Zhang and J., J.r. Pojeta. 1986. Devonian sections in Guangxi from which pelecypods were collected. Devonian rocks and Lower and Middle pelecypods of Guangxi, China and the Traverse Group of Michigan. United States Geological Survery Professional Paper 1394(E):33-43 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3980: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 12.08.1999

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