Liufengshan Hill, Section 4, Loc. 6 (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (23.6° N, 109.7° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° N, 123.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Ertang Formation), Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• 6 m thick. [JA: originally entered as Emsian; Polygnathus inversus and P. serotinus are present in the lowest unit of the "Sipaian Stage" (probably this formation), so it is late Emsian]

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black, gray limestone and mudstone

• gray to black thin bedded limestone intercalated with thin bedded mudstone.

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 4824: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 24.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Pachyfavosites sp. Sokolov 1952 tabulate coral
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Goniophora (Goniophora) sp. Phillips 1848 clam
sgn. (Goniophora) sp. A
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Leptodesma (Leptodesma) guangxiensis oyster
sgn. (Leptodesma)
Wuxuanites lanceolatus Pojeta et al. 1986 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Echinospiriferidae
"Glyptospirifer sp." = Howittia
"Glyptospirifer sp." = Howittia