ammonites
Dale and Zhongping Villages, Section 2, Loc. 23 (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (24.1° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 125.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Liuhui Member (Sipai Formation), Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• 56 m thick. [JA: originally entered as Emsian; Polygnathus inversus and P. serotinus are present in the lowest unit, so the entire formation is late Emsian]

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, calcareous, cherty/siliceous limestone and marl

• Gray med-bedded limestone w/ siliceous nodules intercalated with calcareous mudstone and marl.

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 4038: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 13.08.1999

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