Nanning (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (22.8° N, 108.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 126.5° E)

When: Eognathodus sulcatus conodont zone, Gaoling Member (Nakaolin Formation), Early/Lower Devonian (419.2 - 393.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained sandstone and gray, green siltstone

• The Nakaolin Formation is dominated by fine sandstone, siltstone and mudstone, and the fish remains occur in the grayish-green quartziferous siltstones.

Size class: macrofossils

• Incomplete head shield

Primary reference: Z. Gai, L. Lu, W. Zhao and M. Zhu. 2018. New polybranchiaspiform fishes (Agnatha: Galeaspida) from the Middle Palaeozoic of China and their ecomorphological implications. PLoS ONE 13(9) [M. Uhen/N. Kahane]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 223840: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Nicholas Kahane on 03.12.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Galeaspida
 Polybranchiaspidiformes - Gumuaspidae
Nanningaspis zengi n. gen. n. sp.
Nanningaspis zengi n. gen. n. sp. Gai et al. 2018
IVPP V24897 (Incomplete head shield)