Where: Guangxi, China (25.0° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.7° S, 119.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Yingtang Formation), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• 30 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 Guche and Gupa as the upper/lower members, respective, of the Yingtang Fm.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, red, silty, sandy shale

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 4794: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 24.08.1999

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