Ceshui Formation, Locality 3, Datang Village: Jiusian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Schellwienella sp.
Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae
Echinoconchus elegans (Norwood and Pratten 1855)
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Posidonia sp. Bronn 1828
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Leptodesma cf. lunulata
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Euchondriidae
Euchondria sp. Meek 1874
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Pernopecten sp. Winchell 1865
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Palaeolima sp. Hind 1903
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia goldfussi
Edmondia rudis McCoy 1878
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Neocypricardinia simplex Zhang and Pojeta 1986
Bivalvia - Grammysiidae
Glyptoconcha elegans Zhang and Pojeta 1986
unclassified
Neuropteris gigantea Sternberg 1825
recombined as Paripteris gigantea
Pinopsida - Cordaitanthales
Cordaites sp. Unger 1850
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guangdong
Coordinates: 23.9° North, 113.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.2° South, 95.7° 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 sandstone
Secondary lithology: lithified mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: sandstone and mudstone intercalated with marls and limey mudstone, 77m
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:55694
Authorizer:S. Peters Enterer:S. Peters
Modifier:S. Peters Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-11-02 15:21:38 Last modified:2006-09-24 14:19:37
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-02 15:21:38
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]