Where: Guangxi, China (24.1° N, 109.9° E: paleocoordinates 0.2° N, 119.5° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Guche Member (Yingtang Formation), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)
• 26.5 m thick. Member is listed as "Upper Member" but in strat correlation table they list the upper member name as "Guche" which I've used here.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, green mudstone and marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Zhang and J., J.r. Pojeta. 1986. Devonian sections in Guangxi from which pelecypods were collected. Devonian rocks and Lower and Middle pelecypods of Guangxi, China and the Traverse Group of Michigan. United States Geological Survery Professional Paper 1394(E):33-43 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 4833: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 24.08.1999, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
Bivalvia | |
? Nuculana planumbona pointed nut clam | |
Pseudonuculana zhaoi clam | |
| |
"Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) producta" = Actinopteria, Oxytomoidea elegans
Oxytomoidea elegans Pojeta et al. 1986 oyster | |
Mytilarca cf. chemungensis Conrad 1842 clam | |
Paracyclas rugosa clam |