Where: Guangxi, China (24.1° N, 109.9° E: paleocoordinates 0.2° N, 119.5° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Guche Member (Yingtang Formation), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)
• 23.3 m thick. Member is listed as "Upper Member" but in strat correlation table they list the upper member name as "Guche" which I've used here.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, green, calcareous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 4829: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 24.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nuculoidea hunanensis nut clam | |
? Cardiomorpha sp. de Koninck 1844 clam | |
"Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) producta" = Actinopteria
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Rhynchonellata | |