Ceshui Formation, Locality 4, Zhongxin Village: Jiusian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Arachnolasma simplex
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Aulina puerilis
Aulina carinata
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guangdong
Coordinates: 23.0° North, 113.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.2° South, 96.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Mississippian
Stage: Visean 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 2
Key time interval: Jiusian
Age range of interval: 346.7 - 335 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ceshui
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Datangian stage, correlated via stratigraphy.org
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: gray limestone, sandstone, carbonaceous mudstone, mudstone and coal beds, 62m
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:55697
Authorizer:S. Peters Enterer:S. Peters
Modifier:S. Peters Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-11-03 06:25:35 Last modified:2006-09-24 14:13:21
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-03 06:25:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
15041. R. Zhang and J. Pojeta. 1986. New bivalves from the Datang Stage, Lower Carboniferous, Guangdong Province, China. Journal of Paleontology 60(3):669-679 [S. Peters/S. Peters/P. Wagner]