Dale and Zhongping Villages, Section 2, Loc. 5: Late/Upper Emsian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
corals
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
brachiopods
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) sp. (Hall 1884)
original and current combination Actinopteria
subgn. (Actinopteria)
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guangxi County:Xiangzhou
Coordinates: 24.1° North, 110.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.6° North, 123.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Early/Lower Devonian
Stage:Emsian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 2
*Period:Early/Lower Devonian *Local age/stage:Sipaian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Emsian
Age range of interval:398.30000 - 393.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ertang
Local section:2 Local bed:5
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 31 m thick [JA: originally entered as Emsian; Polygnathus inversus and P. serotinus are present in the lowest unit of the "Sipaian Stage" (probably this formation), so it is late Emsian]
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified argillaceous,calcareous "shale"
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: Gray, calcareous mudstone interbedded with argillaceous limestone.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Apparently didn't bother identifying corals and brachs.
Metadata
Database number:4693
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-17 13:25:24 Last modified:2012-08-20 00:29:14
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:23
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]