Rao Cai, lower Ban Giang Beds (Devonian of Vietnam)

Where: Vietnam (17.9° N, 105.8° E: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 128.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ban Giang Formation, Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone and lithified, argillaceous shale

• sandstones, shales and marls

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Tong-Dzuy, T. H. Dang, D. H. Nguyen, D. K. Nguyen, H. H. Nguyen, T. D. Nguyen, H. P. Ta, K. N. Pham, and N. T. Doan. 1988. Stratigrafiya i tselenteraty Dewona W'etnama, 1: Stratigrafiya [Devonian stratigraphy and coelenterata of Vietnam, 1: Stratigraphy] 5-184 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83326: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.08.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
Stringophyllum sp. Wedekind 1922 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Cystiphylloides sp. Chapman 1893 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Goniophyllidae
Calceola sandalina Linnaeus 1771 horn coral
 Favositida - Parastriatoporidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta sp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Stropheodonta sp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta) Hall 1852
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
 Strophomenida - Chonostrophiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Septalariidae
Septalaria sp. Leihold 1928
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
 Spiriferida - Acrospiriferidae
Acrospirifer sp. Wedekind 1926
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
 Athyridida - Kayseriidae
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Crinoidea
  -
Salairocrinus sp. Dubatolova 1971 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Hexacrinitidae