Zhangmu Section bed 11 (Devonian of China)

Also known as Grayina magnifica guangxiensis Community

Where: Guangxi, China (23.3° N, 109.3° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 125.9° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Monograptus hercynicus graptolite zone, Beijuntang Formation, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• Monograptus hercynicus occurs above and below the stratum where the community occurs

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, yellow mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Shipu, A. J. Boucot, and C. Wang. 1999. Early Devonian brachiopod and trace fossil communitires from southeastern Guangxi. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 139-163 [M. Foote/M. Foote/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12923: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Carl Simpson on 08.01.2002, edited by Sarah Kolbe

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Graptolithina
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Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena "rhomboidalis" Wahlenberg 1818
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
"Grayina magnifica" = Anastrophia (Grayina)
"Grayina magnifica" = Anastrophia (Grayina)
G. magnifica n. subsp. guangxiensis
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
 Spiriferida - Xenomartiniidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
 Atrypida - Carinatinidae
 Atrypida - Karpinskiidae
 Atrypida - Punctatrypidae
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
 Rhynchonellida - Machaerariidae
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sulcata n. sp. Easton et al. 1958
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral