Bed L5 of the Upper Qiziqiao Fm, Xikuangshan section, Xinhua County, Hunan (Devonian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (27.8° N, 111.5° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 109.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Qiziqiao Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• Bed is about 1.1m thick.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; oncoidal, shelly/skeletal limestone

• outer littoral to shallow subtidal zone.
• bioclastic, oncoid limestone

Collection methods: Illustrated specimens are housed in the Department of Geology, Peking University in Beijing (abbreviated PUM).

Primary reference: X.-P. Ma, Y.-L. Sun, W.-C. Hao and W.-H. Liao. 2002. Rugose corals and brachiopods across the Frasnian-Famennian boundary in central Hunan, South China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47(2):373-396 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40955: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 04.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods, corals, and conodonts are listed as present, ostracod abundance is listed as the number of left and right valves per 500 grams of sample. Ostracod abundance is grouped into categories of < 20, 20-5, 50-100, 100-200, >400.
unclassified
  -
Anthozoa
 Rugosa - Charactophyllidae
Temnophyllum sp. Walther 1928 horn coral
Sinodisphyllum variable Sun 1958 horn coral
 Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
Ostracoda
 Halocyprida -
"Entomozoacea sp." = Entomozooidea
"Entomozoacea sp." = Entomozooidea Pribyl 1951 ostracod
 Platycopida - Paraparchitidae
Paraparchites sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1906 ostracod
Samarella sp. ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
"Cryptobairdia sp." = Bairdia (Cryptobairdia) Sohn 1960 ostracod
 Podocopida - Acratiidae
Acratia sp. Delo 1930 ostracod
 Leperditellocopida - Primitiidae
Primitia sp. Jones and Holl 1923 ostracod
Primitia sp. 1
 Hollinocopida -
"Primitiopsacea sp." = Primitiopsoidea
"Primitiopsacea sp." = Primitiopsoidea Swartz 1936 ostracod