Shidian County, Heyuanzhai Formation (Devonian to of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (24.7° N, 99.2° E: paleocoordinates 11.8° S, 126.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Heyuanzhai Formation, Eifelian to Eifelian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)

• late Middle Devonian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: Z. Wang. 1986. Middle Devonian rugose corals from Shidian County, Yunnan. Geological Review 32(6):596-600 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77802: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
Peripaedium planum horn coral
subsp. planum