Nanbiancun (Bed 56) [Rongxian Fm] (Carboniferous of China)

Where: China (25.3° N, 110.3° E: paleocoordinates 5.9° S, 99.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Siphonodella praesulcata conodont zone, Rongxian Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Rongxian Fm (Givetian-Tournaisian), which overlies the Tangjiawan Fm (Givetian) AGE: Carboniferous, assumed to be early Tournaisian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed 56, immediately on Carboniferous side of -Devonian-Carboniferousboundary.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Coquina limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,

• COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.

Primary reference: D. Chen. 2010. Devonian-Carboniferous Carbonates around Guilin, South China: Stratigraphy and Sedimentology. 2010 IGCP – 580 Meeting November 28-December 4 Guilin, South China: Applications of Magnetic Susceptibility on Paleozoic Rocks 1-29 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 162313: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for macro fossils. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
unclassified
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Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Gattendorfiidae
Acutimitoceras sp. Librovitch 1957 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Prionoceratidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras cf. vetusta, "Platyceras (Orthonythia) acutirostris" = Palaeocapulus acutirostre
Platyceras cf. vetusta Sowerby 1829 snail
"Platyceras (Orthonythia) acutirostris" = Palaeocapulus acutirostre Hall 1856 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Palaeolima "sp. A" Hind 1903 file clam
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
Pterinopecten sp. Hall 1883 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Pernopecten sp. Winchell 1865 scallop
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Posidonia sp. Bronn 1828 oyster
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella michelini L'Eveille 1835
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
 Spiriferinida - Dimegelasmidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
"Unispirifer tornacensis" = Atylephorus tornacensis
"Unispirifer tornacensis" = Atylephorus tornacensis de Koninck 1883
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Paraparchitidae
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
"Proetus (Pudoproetus) guangxiensis" = Pudoproetus guangxiensis
"Proetus (Pudoproetus) guangxiensis" = Pudoproetus guangxiensis Zhu and Yuan 1988 trilobite
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Idiognathodontidae
"Protognathus kuehni" = Protognathodus kuehni, "Protognathus kocki" = Protognathodus kockeli
"Protognathus kuehni" = Protognathodus kuehni Ziegler and Leuteritz 1970 conodont
"Protognathus kocki" = Protognathodus kockeli Bischoff 1957 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
"Polygnathus communis" = Neopolygnathus communis Branson and Mehl 1934 conodont