ammonites
Luobang Village, Section 5, Loc. 24 (Devonian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (24.1° N, 109.9° E: paleocoordinates 0.0° S, 116.0° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 37.5 m thick. Member is listed as "Lower part only" but in strat correlation table they list the lower member as "Changcun."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, green, argillaceous limestone and shale

• greenish-gray thin bedded to medium bedded argillaceous limestone intercalated with shale

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 4827: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 24.08.1999

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