Ceshui Formation, Locality 3, Datang Village (Carboniferous of China)

Where: Guangdong, China (23.9° N, 113.5° E: paleocoordinates 8.2° S, 95.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ceshui Formation, Jiusian (346.7 - 335.2 Ma)

• Datangian stage, correlated via stratigraphy.org

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified mudstone and lithified, argillaceous limestone

• argillaceous limestone, mudstone and siliceous rocks, 43 m

Primary reference: R. Zhang and J. Pojeta. 1986. New bivalves from the Datang Stage, Lower Carboniferous, Guangdong Province, China. Journal of Paleontology 60(3):669-679 [S. Peters/S. Peters/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55695: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 02.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
 Pectinida - Euchondriidae
Euchondria sp. Meek 1874 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Pernopecten sp. Winchell 1865 scallop