Houshan, Guilin (South China) (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (27.1° N, 117.1° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° S, 104.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yonghsien Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• list includes taxa from the lower and middle members of the formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

• coral bafflestone reef composed from base to top of five lithofacies types: 1)cryptalgal micrite, 2)peloidal packstone, 3)stromatactis limestone, 4)coral-bafflestone, 5) pseudopeloidal packstone

Primary reference: J.-W. Shen and S.-L. Zhang. 1997. A Late Devonian (Frasnian) Coral-Bafflestone Reef at Houshan in Guilin, South China. Facies 37:85-98 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5769: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 29.11.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• author states in text that gastropods, bivalves, etc. are present, but lists no genus/species information, thus higher taxonomic designations are listed
unclassified
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Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
Smithiphyllum guilinense n. sp. horn coral
Smithiphyllum sp. Birenheide 1962 horn coral
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
"Pseudatrypa sp." = Pseudoatrypa
"Pseudatrypa sp." = Pseudoatrypa Copper 1973
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Conodonta
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