Song Mua, Upper Ban Cai Beds (Devonian of Vietnam)

Where: Vietnam (21.2° N, 105.1° E: paleocoordinates 2.2° N, 107.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ban Cai Formation, Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• Palmatolepis complex

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified marl and lithified limestone

• limestone, marl and shale

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: T. Tong-Dzuy, T. H. Dang, D. H. Nguyen, D. K. Nguyen, H. H. Nguyen, T. D. Nguyen, H. P. Ta, K. N. Pham, and N. T. Doan. 1988. Stratigrafiya i tselenteraty Dewona W'etnama, 1: Stratigrafiya [Devonian stratigraphy and coelenterata of Vietnam, 1: Stratigraphy] 5-184 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83317: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.08.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Synprioniodina sp.
Synprioniodina sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1926 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Polygnathus sp.
Polygnathus sp. Hinde 1879 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
Hindeodella brevis
Hindeodella brevis Branson and Mehl 1934 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Palmatolepidae
Palmatolepis marginifera, Palmatolepis minuta, Palmatolepis glabra
Palmatolepis marginifera conodont
subsp. marginifera
Palmatolepis minuta Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
subsp. minuta and schleizia
Palmatolepis glabra Ulrich and Bassler 1926 conodont
subsp. glabra, distorta and pectinata