Upper Middle Shangdamingshan; Damingshan, Baiku, Mianduhe (Devonian of China)

Where: Nei Mongol, China (48.3° N, 118.2° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 59.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cheiloceras Stufe - Platyclymenia Stufe zone, Cheiloceras - Sporadoceras beds Member (Shangdamingshan Formation), Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, red limestone

• Purplish-red bioclastic limestone. "The trilobites may be taken as inhabitants of the elevated area of the deep sea basin, where they lived, presumably, in the dysphotic zone."
• Purplish-red bioclastic limestone.

Primary reference: L. -W. Xiang. 1981. Some Late Devonian trilobites of China. Special Paper Geological Society of America 187:183-191 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3958: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 12.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

• "Yields many ammonoids associated with some trilobites and coral."
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
"Tornoceras (Protornoceras) planidorsatum" = Armatites planidorsatus, "Tornoceras (Protornoceras) planidorsatum" = Armatites planidorsatus
"Tornoceras (Protornoceras) planidorsatum" = Armatites planidorsatus Munster 1839 ammonite
subgn. (Protornoceras) ssp. euryomphala
"Tornoceras (Protornoceras) planidorsatum" = Armatites planidorsatus Munster 1839 ammonite
subgn. (Protornoceras) ssp. planidorsatum
 Goniatitida - Dimeroceratidae
Sinotites sp. Chang 1960 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Sporadoceratidae
Sporadoceras muensteri von Buch 1832 ammonite
 Clymeniida - Platyclymeniidae
Platyclymenia (Platyclymenia) walcotti ammonite
subgn. (Platyclymenia)
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacopidae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
gen. et sp. indet.
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
Nalivkinella sp. Soshkina 1939 horn coral