Lower Xikuangshan Fmn, units 8-10, Xikuangshan section, Xinhua County, Hunan (Devonian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (27.8° N, 111.5° E: paleocoordinates 4.7° S, 106.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Xikuangshan Formation, Early/Lower Famennian (376.1 - 370.6 Ma)

• This section cannot be dated with conodonts. Lower Xikuangshan Fmn has two brachiopod zones (Yunnanella and Yunnanellina), which are thought to correlated with crepida conodont zone (early Famennian). (NB units 5 to 11 are covered in this section; 11 is highest, 5 is lowest.)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and marl

• "typical neritic facies"
• "Shales intercalated with marls, yielding brachiopods...36.6m"

Primary reference: K. Wang and S. Ba. 1988. Faunal changes and events near the Frasnian-Famennian boundary of South China. In N. J. McMillan, A. F. Embry, and D. J. Glass (eds.), Devonian of the World, Volume III. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. Calgary, Alberta, Canada 71-78 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40567: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 25.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Yunnanellidae
"Yunnanellina triplicata" = Yunnanella, "Yunnanellina sp." = Yunnanella, "Yunnanellina hanburyi" = Yunnanella hanburii
"Yunnanellina triplicata" = Yunnanella
"Yunnanellina sp." = Yunnanella
"Yunnanellina hanburyi" = Yunnanella hanburii Davidson 1853
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae