Where: Guangxi, China (24.1° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.6° N, 123.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sipai Formation, Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• [JA: originally entered as Emsian; Polygnathus inversus and P. serotinus are present in the lowest unit, so the entire formation is late Emsian]

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Grab samples from various levels in the Sipai Fm.

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 4862: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 25.08.1999

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