Xilaping, Ninglang County (Devonian to of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (27.3° N, 100.8° E: paleocoordinates 13.2° S, 119.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lagude Formation, Givetian to Givetian (387.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• late Middle-early Upper Devonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. Y. Dong. 1989. Devonian stromatoporoids from Ninglang of Yunnan. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 6(2):171-178 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77917: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Hermatostroma dahekouense stromatoporoid sponge
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Paramphipora blokhini stromatoporoid sponge
Paramphipora guilinensis stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Syringostromellidae
"Pseudoactinodictyon bullulosum" = Salairella bullulosa
"Pseudoactinodictyon bullulosum" = Salairella bullulosa Stearn 1966 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora asterisca stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes costulata Lecompte 1952 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Gerronostromatidae
Gerronostroma xizangense stromatoporoid sponge
Gerronostroma densatum stromatoporoid sponge