Yishanophyllum Ass., Nandan, Guangxi (Devonian of China)

Also known as Reef 937

Where: Guangxi, China (25.0° N, 107.5° E: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 103.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Rongxian Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• Siphonodella praesulcata - conodont zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• Beiliu-type Fauna in Guangxi, (Reef Facies Fauna)

•open platform, the carbonates are very pelitic and there are terrigenous clastic interbedds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Goudon. 1994. Devonian tetracoral assemblages and their distribution in Guangxi, China. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 172(2):7-13 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80475: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 21.04.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Quasiendothyra communis, Quasiendothyra kobeitusana
Quasiendothyra communis
Q. c. communis & Q. c. regularis
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Yishanophyllum bellum
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
Caninia dorlodoti
 Stauriida - Ekvasophyllidae
Zaphriphyllum sp.
Zaphriphyllum sp. Sutherland 1954 horn coral
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
Neaxon longiseptatum
 Stauriida - Zaphrentoididae
Zaphrentoides sp.
Zaphrentoides sp. Shtukenberg 1895 horn coral
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Siphonodella praesulcata