Meter 3360 Middle Devonian fauna from the middle Tangxiang Fm, Luofo China (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (22.0° N, 108.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.8° N, 120.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nowakia guangxiensis zone, Tangxiang Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); sandy mudstone

• "intercalations of sandstone, laminated medium grained quartzose sandstone beds of about 10-20cm thick"

Primary reference: K. Vogel, X. Han-kui, and F. Langenstrassen. 1989. Brachiopods and their relation to facies development in the lower and Middle Devonian of Nandan, Guangxi, South China. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 110:17-59 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27560: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 11.12.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Fauna is listed as present in Table 1.
Anthozoa
 Tabulata -
Tabulata indet. tabulate coral
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
Pterinopecten sp. Hall 1883 scallop
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
Pterochaenia sp. Clarke 1904 clam
Cephalopoda
  -
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
Styliolinidae indet. Grabau and Shimer 1910
 Nowakiida - Nowakiidae
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Petrocrania sp. Raymond 1910
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Stringocephalidae
"Rensselandia sp." = Newberria
"Rensselandia sp." = Newberria
 Orthida - Draboviidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoeliidae sp. George 1931
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Trilobita
 Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
Cyphaspides sp. Novak 1890 trilobite