Ceshui Formation, Locality 1, Guitou Village: Jiusian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella radialis (Phillips 1836)
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo anthraconeiloides
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia cf. sulcata (Phillips 1836)
synonym of Edmondia sulcata
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Zaphrentites constrictus
Zaphrentites disjunctus
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guangdong
Coordinates: 24.0° North, 113.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.5° South, 96.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Mississippian
Stage:Visean 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 2
Key time interval:Jiusian
Age range of interval:346.70000 - 335.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ceshui
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Datangian stage, correlated via stratigraphy.org
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified silty mudstone
Secondary lithology: lithified carbonaceous mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Silty mudstone and carbonaeous mudstone 8.8m thick
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:55692
Authorizer:S. Peters Enterer:S. Peters
Modifier:S. Peters Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-11-02 15:03:27 Last modified:2006-09-24 14:20:32
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-02 15:03:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
15041. R. Zhang and J. Pojeta. 1986. New bivalves from the Datang Stage, Lower Carboniferous, Guangdong Province, China. Journal of Paleontology 60(3):669-679 [S. Peters/S. Peters/P. Wagner]