Buchiola-Reticulariopsis Community, Nandan County, Northern Guangxi Province (Devonian to of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (24.5° N, 115.6° E: paleocoordinates 2.1° S, 117.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Nandan Formation, Late/Upper Emsian to Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 387.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

• "Nowakia and goniatites pelagic, trilobites probably epibenthic. BA 4-5, desposited in relatively quiet-water, lower oxygen environment, as indicated by the thin-bedded, nonbioturbated strata."
• "dark-colored, thin-bedded mudstone"

Collection methods: For complete list, see Xu (1979), Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 18(4):362-380 (table 1).

Primary reference: Y. Wang, A. J. Boucot, J.Y. Rong and X.C. Yang. 1987. Community paleoecology as a geologic tool: the Chinese Ashgillian-Eifelian (latest Ordovician through early Middle Devonian) as an example. Geological Society of America Special Paper 211:1-100 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25756: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 24.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Tentaculita
 Nowakiida - Nowakiidae
Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Sobolewiidae
Subanarcestes macrocephalus Schindewolf 1933 ammonite
 Agoniatitida - Latanarcestidae
"Anarcestes (Latanarcestes) noeggerati" = Latanarcestes noeggerathi
"Anarcestes (Latanarcestes) noeggerati" = Latanarcestes noeggerathi von Buch 1832 ammonite
goniatites
 Agoniatitida - Mimoceratidae
Gyroceratites gracilis Bronn 1835 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Praecardiidae
Buchiola sp. Barrande 1881 clam
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
"Orbiculoides tarda" = Orbiculoidea, "Orbiculoides sp." = Orbiculoidea
"Orbiculoides tarda" = Orbiculoidea
"Orbiculoides sp." = Orbiculoidea d'Orbigny 1847
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Spiriferida -
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida -
Perichonetes mutabilis n. gen. n. sp., "Strophochonetes cf. filistriata" = Johnsonetes filistriata
Perichonetes mutabilis n. gen. n. sp.
"Strophochonetes cf. filistriata" = Johnsonetes filistriata Walcott 1884
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae