Luobang Village, Section 5, Loc. 21 (Devonian of China)

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

• greenish-gray shale intercalated with 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

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
? Cardiomorpha sp. de Koninck 1844 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) producta" = Actinopteria
"Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) producta" = Actinopteria oyster
sgn. (Actinopteria)
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Echinospiriferidae