Heping Village, Sect. 3, Loc. 19: Eifelian, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pterineidae
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Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) sp.
(Hall 1884)
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| original and current combination Actinopteria | ||||||||||
| subgn. (Actinopteria) | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Schizodidae
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Sinodora sp.
Pojeta and Zhang 1984
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Guangxi | County: | Yongfu |
| Coordinates: | 25.0° North, 110.0° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 0.7° South, 119.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| 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: | 393.30000 - 387.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Yingtang | Member: | Upper | ||
| Local section: | Heping Village 3 | Local bed: | 19 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 39 m thick. Authors are being self-contradictory here: they list the members in this section as "Upper/Middle/Lower" while in their strata correlation chart they list Guche and Gupa as the upper/lower members, respective, of the Yingtang Fm. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray argillaceous sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone |
| Lithology description: pale-grayish-white medium bedded sandstone and siltstone intercalated with argillaceous siltstone. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
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: | 4795 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Sommers |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-08-24 13:19:15 | Last modified: | 2012-08-20 00:13:43 |
| 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] |