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This book presents an intensive systematic description and illustration of 14 fossil groups including conodonts, foraminifers, algae, corals, blastoids, bryozoans, trilobites, ostracodes, brachiopods, ammonoids, gastropods, bibalbes, holothuroids and fish scales hitherto found in the DCB beds in Nanbiancun, Which form a reliable base for the study of biostratigraphy, tracing of the evolutional lineage of evolved taxa and defining of the DCB and the unique point.

Geographical and Geological Setting
Regional Stratigraphy
Description of the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary Sections
Microfacies Analysis and Sedimentary Environment Interpretation
Rb-Sr Dating of Clay Minerals
Paleoenvironment Deduced from Trace Element Geochemistry
The Magnetostratigraphy
Conodonts
Calcareous Algae and Microproblematica
Foraminifera
Corals
Blastoid
Bryozoan
Trilobites
Ostracodes
Gastropods
Ammonoids
Brachiopods
Bivalves
Attaining A Common Language of Stratigraphy-Basic Evaluation of Nanbiancun Section
Appendix: Description of the Section I
Index of Species
Explanation of Plates
List of Text-figures
List of Tables

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