Dale and Zhongping Villages, Section 2, Loc. 35 (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (24.1° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 119.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Guche Member (Yingtang Formation), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• 36 m thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, green limestone and shale

• Grayish-green shale intercalated with yellow mudcracked limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

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 4023: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 13.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora eifeliensis tabulate coral
ssp. beiliuensis
 Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
Sociophyllum sp. Birenheide 1962 horn coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Utaratuia sinensis horn coral
originally entered as "Utararuia sinensis"
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Cystiphylloides sp. Chapman 1893 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Goniophyllidae
Calceola sandalina Linnaeus 1771 horn coral
ssp. acuminata
Calceola sandalina Linnaeus 1771 horn coral
ssp. intermedia
Calceola sandalina Linnaeus 1771 horn coral
nanningensis
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Rhynchonellida - Uncinulidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae