Dale and Zhongping Villages, Section 2, Loc. 32: Eifelian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Yingtangella sulcatilis
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyrisina yohi
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Acrospiriferidae
Xerospirifer fongi
originally entered as "Xenospirifer fongi"
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer lachrymosa
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Echinospiriferidae
Indospirifer extensa
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Uncinulidae
Uncinulus signatus
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Productella productoides
ssp. sinensis
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Chonetidae
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guangxi County:Xiangzhou
Coordinates: 24.1° North, 110.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.1° North, 119.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Devonian Epoch: Middle Devonian
Stage: Eifelian 10 m.y. bin: Devonian 3
*Period:Middle Devonian *Local age/stage:Yingtangian
Key time interval: Eifelian
Age range of interval: 393.3 - 387.7 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Yingtang Member:Gupa
Local section:2 Local bed:32
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 91 m thick.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green lithified argillaceous "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: Grayish-green shale having two beds of lenticular limestone.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:4029
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-13 14:05:34 Last modified:2012-08-20 00:13:43
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

274. R. Zhang and J., J.r. Pojeta. 1986. Devonian sections in Guangxi from which pelecypods were collected. Devonian rocks and Lower and Middle pelecypods of Guangxi, China and the Traverse Group of Michigan. United States Geological Survery Professional Paper 1394(E):33-43 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]