Shaijingpo section, upper [Changyuchun Fm]: Late/Upper Frasnian, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Protozoa
- Entactinaria
- Entactiniidae
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Stigmosphaerostylus variospina
(Won 1983)
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Protozoa
- Entactinaria
- Tetrentactiniidae
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Spongentactinella cf. corynacantha
Nazarov and Ormiston 1983
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Protozoa
- Entactinaria
- Palaeoscenidiidae
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Palaeoscenidium cladophorum
Deflandre 1953
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Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Yunnan | County: | Xianyun |
| Coordinates: | 25.5° North, 100.5° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 13.0° South, 116.9° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Late/Upper Devonian |
| Stage: | Frasnian | 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 4 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Frasnian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 375.40000 - 372.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Changyuchun | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Changyuchun Fm, which is unconformably overlain by Quaternary sediments. AGE: upper Frasnian, on the basis of microfossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the upper part of the formation. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,yellow lithified chert |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Thick gray yellow or thin purple ribbon-bedded cherts. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description and sample preparation techniques. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | NIGPAS |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Presumably the authors. REPOSITORY: Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, China. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for radiolaria. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 90906 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | micropaleontology |
| Created: | 2009-08-24 19:51:22 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-08-24 19:51:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 30581. | Y. Wang, J. C. Aitchison, and H. Luo. 2003. Devonian radiolarian faunas from South China. Micropaleontology 49(2):127-145 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |