Meter 1963 Early Devonian fauna from the middle Tangxiang Fm, Luofo China (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (22.0° N, 108.0° E: paleocoordinates 3.7° N, 126.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nowakia holynensis zone, Tangxiang Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); mudstone

• "nearly pure shales containing no carbonate...unweathered sediment is a calcareous clay...finely laminated"

Primary reference: K. Vogel, X. Han-kui, and F. Langenstrassen. 1989. Brachiopods and their relation to facies development in the lower and Middle Devonian of Nandan, Guangxi, South China. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 110:17-59 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27505: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 07.12.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Fauna is listed as present in Table 1.
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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida -
Perichonetes sp., "Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Plectodonta sp.
Plectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Zdimir sp.
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
Reticulariopsis sp.
Tentaculita
 Nowakiida - Nowakiidae
Nowakia holynensis
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
Styliolinidae indet.
Styliolinidae indet. Grabau and Shimer 1910
Cephalopoda
  -
Cephalopoda indet.
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
Pterochaenia sp.
Pterochaenia sp. Clarke 1904 clam
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily