Miaoyakou, Changxing Fm, Puzixiang, Pengshui County (Permian of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (29.6° N, 107.9° E: paleocoordinates 9.3° N, 94.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Changxing Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. X. Tong. 1978. Carboniferous and Permian Brachiopoda. Palaeontological Atlas of Southwest China - Sichuan Volume 2:210-267 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 103467: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Araxathyris protea Abich 1878
Araxathyris sinensis Shen et al. 2004
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
"Crurithyris speciosa" = Speciothyris speciosa
"Crurithyris speciosa" = Speciothyris speciosa Wang 1955
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Squamularia squamularioides" = Permophricodothyris squamularioides
"Squamularia squamularioides" = Permophricodothyris squamularioides Huang 1933
 Orthida - Enteletidae
"Enteletina pengshuiensis n. sp." = Peltichia sinensis
"Enteletina pengshuiensis n. sp." = Peltichia sinensis Huang 1933
 Rhynchonellida - Pontisiidae
"Pugnax pseudoutah" = Prelissorhynchia pseudoutah
"Pugnax pseudoutah" = Prelissorhynchia pseudoutah Huang 1933
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
 Rhynchonellida - Allorhynchidae
 Terebratulida - Notothyrididae
Notothyris warthi Waagen 1882
Strophomenata
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
Leptodus nobilis Waagen 1883