Ban Vang, Vientiane area (Devonian of Laos)

Also known as Reef 2552

Where: Laos (18.1° N, 101.8° E: paleocoordinates 8.7° N, 122.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• small patch reefs

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. Fontaine. 1990. Some Devonian corals and stromatoporoids from northeast Thailand. Geologisches Jahrbuch B 73:57-79 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82105: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.07.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites porosus Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora schulzei tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites styriacus tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae