Cystophrentis Ass., Guangdong, Guizhou (Devonian of China)

Also known as Reef 3748

Where: Guizhou, China (25.8° N, 109.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.7° S, 102.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Etoucun Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• Siphonodella praesulcata - conodont zone

•open platform facies

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• Beiliu-type Fauna in Guangxi, (Reef Facies Fauna)

•open platform, the carbonates are very pelitic and there are terrigenous clastic interbedds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Goudon. 1994. Devonian tetracoral assemblages and their distribution in Guangxi, China. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 172(2):7-13 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80476: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 21.04.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Quasiendothyra communis, Quasiendothyra kobeitusana
Quasiendothyra communis
Q. c. communis & Q. c. regularis
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia kinlingensis
 Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
Fusella sp.
Fusella sp. M'Coy 1844
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita hunanensis, Composita ovata
Composita ovata Mather 1915
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp.
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Uraliniidae
Cystophrentis kolaohoensis, Cystophrentis grandis
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
Caninia sp.
Caninia sp. Michelin 1840 horn coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Labechiidae
Labechia sp.
Labechia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stromatoporoid sponge
 Labechiida - Rosenellidae
Cystostroma hunanensis
Cystostroma hunanensis stromatoporoid sponge