Hantang, Guilin, bivalves floatstone sub-facies (Devonian of China)

Also known as Reef 4181

Where: Guangxi, China (25.3° N, 110.1° E: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 110.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yunghsien Formation, Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; floatstone and framestone

• Microbial reef

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: J. Shen, G. E. Webb, and H. Qing. 2010. Microbial mounds prior to the Frasnian-Famennian mass extinctions, Hantang, Guilin, South China. Sedimentology 57:1615-1639 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191830: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 16.02.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Paramphipora sp. Yavorsky 1955 stromatoporoid sponge
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Megalodontida - Megalodontidae
Megalodon sp. Sowerby 1827 clam