Baqi section, bed 7, Xiangzhou County, Guangxi (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (24.0° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.7° S, 107.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• crepida 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...12.0m"

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 40576: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 25.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Icriodontidae
 Ozarkodinida - Palmatolepidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Sentosiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Ptychomaletoechia hsinghuaensis
listed as "Ptychomalotoechia"
Ptychomaletoechia hsikuangshanensis
listed as "Ptychomalotoechia"
 Rhynchonellida - Yunnanellidae
"Yunnanellina uniplicata" = Yunnanella
"Yunnanellina uniplicata" = Yunnanella