Luobang Village, Section 5, Loc. 16 (Devonian of China)

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

• greenish-gray mudstone intercalated with marl and limestone.

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

• didn't identify trilobites
unclassified
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Trilobita
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Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
? Nuculana planumbona pointed nut clam
 Nuculida -
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
? Nuculopsis sp. Girty 1912 nut clam
sp. A
Similiconcha "sp. A" Zhang 1977 nut clam
sp. A
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) producta" = Actinopteria, Oxytomoidea elegans
"Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) producta" = Actinopteria oyster
sgn. (Actinopteria)
Oxytomoidea elegans Pojeta et al. 1986 oyster
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae