Where: Guangxi, China (25.0° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.9° S, 115.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Donggangling Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• 24 m thick. Authors are being self-contradictory here: they list the members in this section as "Upper/Middle/Lower" while in their strata correlation chart they list Jide and Changcun as the upper/lower members, respective, of the Donggangling Fm.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, argillaceous shale and 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 4792: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 24.08.1999

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