Dale and Zhongping Villages, Section 2, Loc. 12 (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (24.1° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.6° N, 123.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shipeng Member (Sipai Formation), Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• 13 m thick. [JA: originally entered as Emsian; Polygnathus inversus and P. serotinus are present in the lowest unit, so the entire formation is late Emsian]

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, silty mudstone and marl

• Med-bedded mudstone and nodular marl.

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 4052: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 13.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Knoxitidae
Hypotetragona sp. Morey 1935 ostracod
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae