Luobang Village, Section 5, Loc. 12 (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (24.1° N, 109.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 9.1° S, 84.4° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 89.2 m thick. Member is listed as "Lower Member" but in strat correlation table they list the lower member name as "Gupa" which I've used here.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• greenish gray shale intercalated with mudstone, the basal part is argillaceous 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 4836: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 24.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida -
 Spiriferida - Adolfiidae
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae