Where: Guangxi, China (25.0° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.9° S, 115.4° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Donggangling Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• 10 m thick. Authors are being self-contradictory here: they list the members in this section as "Upper/Middle/Lower" while in their strata correlation chart they list Jide and Changcun as the upper/lower members, respective, of the Donggangling Fm.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, pebbly, silty, calcareous limestone and siltstone
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 4791: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 24.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Schizophoria striatula von Schlotheim 1813 | |
Bivalvia | |
Paracyclas rugosa clam | |
Nyassa dorsata clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Temnophyllum sp. Walther 1928 horn coral | |
Striatopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral |