Where: Hubei, China (30.3° N, 116.0° E: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 104.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yuntaiguan Formation, Givetian to Givetian (388.1 - 360.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mudstone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, permineralized, replaced with limonite, replaced with carbon

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: Z. Wang and B. Geng. 1997. A new Middle Devonian plant: Metacladophyton tetraxylum gen. et sp. nov. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 243:85-102 [W. Stein/N. Smith/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22937: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Nicole Smith on 03.07.2002