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Late Visean – early Serpukhovian conodont succession at the Naqing (Nashui) section in Guizhou, South China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2013

YUPING QI ,
TAMARA I. NEMYROVSKA ,
XIANGDONG WANG ,
JITAO CHEN ,
ZHIHAO WANG ,
H. RICHARD LANE ,
BARRY C. RICHARDS ,
KEYI HU  and
QIULAI WANG
YUPING QI*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China
TAMARA I. NEMYROVSKA
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 55-b O. Gonchar Str., 01601, Kiev, Ukraine
XIANGDONG WANG
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China
JITAO CHEN
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China
ZHIHAO WANG
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China
H. RICHARD LANE
Affiliation:
National Science Foundation of USA, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA, 22230, USA
BARRY C. RICHARDS
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Canada, 3303–33rd Street, NW, Calgary AB, T2L 2A7, Canada
KEYI HU
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China
QIULAI WANG
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China
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†Author for correspondence: ypqi@nigpas.ac.cn
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Abstract

This study reports the conodont succession across the Visean–Serpukhovian (V/S) boundary interval at the Naqing section, South China. Continuous centimetre-scale sampling of the relatively deep-water section in recent years has provided new data for a more detailed biostratigraphy of conodonts across the Visean–Serpukhovian boundary. Three conodont zones were described in ascending order: the Gnathodus bilineatus, Lochriea nodosa and Lochriea ziegleri zones. The first appearance datum (FAD) of L. ziegleri has been moved down to 60.1 m above the base of the Naqing section. The correlation of the conodont succession across the Visean–Serpukhovian boundary in the Naqing section with other sections in Eurasia is discussed.

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conodont successionVisean–Serpukhovian boundarycandidate GSSPNaqing sectionSouth China
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Geological Magazine , Volume 151 , Issue 2 , March 2014 , pp. 254 - 268
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