86m sample, Liangquan Formation (Devonian of China)

Where: Xiyang, China (31.0° N, 88.0° E: paleocoordinates 20.8° S, 133.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Liangquan Formation, Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• Listed as Pragian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified, silty shale and lithified sandstone

• Lithology interpreted from lithologic code of section; environmental interpretation based on mention of "typical pelagic sequence" and relationship to adjacent lithologies
• Silty shale occasionally interbedded with thin-bedded sandstones (or siltstones)

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Sample with megabenthos selected at random(toward top); focus is biostratigraphy of Emsian, and so likely only focusing on important zone fossils (although brachiopods are listed as well, despite their status as non-guide taxa); setting as "pooled samples" since unsure whether the section listed is a composite one from this one locality

Primary reference: C.-M. Yu and Y.-P. Ruan. 1988. Proposal and comment on the definition of Emsian. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 14:179-191 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75909: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 05.11.2007

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Tentaculita
 Nowakiida - Nowakiidae
Nowakia acuaria
 Nowakiida - Peneauiidae
Guerichina strangulata
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Monograptus sp.
Monograptus sp. graptolite