Liujing Village, Section 1, Loc. 13 (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (22.4° N, 107.6° E: paleocoordinates 6.8° N, 126.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mahuangling Member (Nagaoling Formation), Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• 2 m thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown, silty mudstone

• Pale-brown medium bedded mudstone having quartzose silt.
• Pale-brown medium bedded mudstone having quartzose silt.

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 3998: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 13.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Inarticulata
  -
Inarticulata indet.
inarticulate brachiopods
Bivalvia
 Nuculida -
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Leptodesma (Leptodesma) deprati oyster
subgn. (Leptodesma)
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus aff. cuneus clam
originally entered as "Schizodus aff. cuneus"
 Cardiida -
? Cypricardella sp. Hall 1856 clam
originally entered as "? Cypricardella sp."
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae