ammonites
Dale and Zhongping Villages, Section 2, Loc. 40 (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (24.1° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.1° S, 115.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Donggangling Formation, Givetian (388.1 - 383.7 Ma)

• 18 m thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone

• Dark gray med-bedded limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Zhang and J. Pojeta, Jr. 1986. Devonian sections in Guangxi from which pelecypods were collected. Devonian rocks and Lower and Middle pelecypods of Guangxi, China and the Traverse Group of Michigan. United States Geological Survery Professional Paper 1394(E):33-43 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4019: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 13.08.1999

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