Liujing Village, Section 1, Loc. 5 (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: Hengxian Member (Lianhuashan Formation), Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• 8 m thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, yellow, silty dolomite

• Gray to grayish-yellow thin- to med-bedded silty dolomite.

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 4007: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 13.08.1999, edited by Austin Hendy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Ostracoda
 Leperditellocopida - Primitiidae
Primitia sp. Jones and Holl 1923 ostracod
 Platycopida - Kloedenellidae
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Beyrichia sp. M'Coy 1846 ostracod
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Dysodonta angulata clam
originally entered as "Dysodonta angulata"
 Nuculida -
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Leptodesma (Leptodesma) venusta oyster
subgn. (Leptodesma)
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
? Sanguinolites sp. M'Coy 1844 clam
originally entered as "? Sanguinolites sp."
 Cardiida -
? Cypricardella sp. Hall 1856 clam
originally entered as "? Cypricardella sp."
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
Placodermi
 Antiarchiformes - Yunnanolepididae
Yunnanolepis sp. Liu 1963 armour-plated fish
 Antiarchiformes - Chuchinolepidae
"Orientolepis neokwangsiensis" = Chuchinolepis gracilis
"Orientolepis neokwangsiensis" = Chuchinolepis gracilis Chang 1978 armour-plated fish