Baqi section, bed 5, Xiangzhou County, Guangxi (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (24.0° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.4° S, 109.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• Upper triangularis Zone. Frasnian-Famennian boundary at boundary between triangularis and crepida conodont zones.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray limestone

• "area transitional between the benthonic and planktonic facies"
• "light grey thick-bedded limestone...1.8m"

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 40574: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 25.06.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Palmatolepidae
Palmatolepis triangularis, Palmatolepis minuta, Palmatolepis tenuipunctata
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Gypidula sublubica
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
Tenticospirifer kwangsiensis
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyris gurdoni
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Desquamatia sp., Spinatrypa cf. ninghsiangensis, Atrypa cf. grossheimi
Desquamatia sp. Alekseeva 1960
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Ptychomaletoechia shetienchiaoensis
Ptychomaletoechia shetienchiaoensis
listed as "Ptychomalotoechia"
 Rhynchonellida - Pugnacidae
Pugnax lummatoensis