ammonites
Heping Village, Sect. 3, Loc. 32 (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (25.0° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.7° S, 106.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Rongxian Formation), Late/Upper Devonian (383.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• 45 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone and chert

• Gray thick-bedded limestone containing flint nodules.

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 4703: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 17.08.1999

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