Heping Village, Sect. 3, Loc. 24 (Devonian of China)

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

• nodular limestone and marl intercalated with a 5 m thick siltstone with gravels.

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
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
 Terebratulida - Stringocephalidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria striatula von Schlotheim 1813
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
 Actinodontida - Nyassidae
Anthozoa
 Rugosa - Charactophyllidae
Temnophyllum sp. Walther 1928 horn coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Striatopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral