Also known as Reef 1700
Where: Guangxi, China (25.5° N, 110.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.5° S, 115.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Donggangling Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• 18-20 m thick section
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with calcite
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
• Stromatoporoids prevailing but not studied
Primary reference: J.-w. Shen and C.-m. Yu. 1996. Middle Devonian (Givetian) coral-stromatoporoid reef at Yanshan, north of Guilin, Guangxi, South China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 35(6):686-701 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34889: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 10.10.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Anthozoa | |
Lythophyllum sp. Wedekind 1925 horn coral | |
Argutastrea sp. Crickmay 1960 horn coral
Disphyllum sp. Fromentel 1861 horn coral | |
"Sinospongophyllum sp." = Tabulophyllum
"Sinospongophyllum sp." = Tabulophyllum Fenton and Fenton 1924 horn coral | |
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge | |
Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Demospongiae | |
Chaetetes sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1829 demosponge |