Wangyou, Wangyou Formation, Guizhou (Carboniferous of China)

Where: China (25.8° N, 106.5° E: paleocoordinates 7.3° S, 102.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wangyou Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• Lower Tournaisian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: J. Kullmann and W. H. Liao. 1985. Hornförmige Einzelkorallen (Rugosa) aus dem Unterkarbon von Süd-China [Cornute solitary corals (Rugosa) from the Lower Carboniferous of South China]. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 189(4-6):125-157 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66886: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.10.2006

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
? Amplexus sp. Sowerby 1814 horn coral
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Gattendorfiidae
Gattendorfia sp. Schindewolf 1920 ammonite
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae