Yanbeihou K10, Zhijin (Permian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (26.5° N, 105.6° E: paleocoordinates 1.6° N, 96.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Longtan Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; gray, sandy mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Wang, L. Shao, L. Hao, P. Zhang, I. J. Glasspool, J. R. Wheeley, P. B. Wignall, T. Yi, M. Zhang and J. Hilton. 2011. Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of the Lopingian (Late Permian) coal measures in southwestern China. International Journal of Coal Geology 85(1):168-183 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197498: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 14.11.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Edriosteges sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astartella cf. symmetrica Chen et al. 1974 clam
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Pernopecten huayingshanensis Chen et al. 1974 scallop
Pernopecten sichuanensis Chen et al. 1974 scallop
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalina sp. de Koninck 1842 clam
Rhipidopsis
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Rhipidopsis sp. Schmalhausen 1879
Found in the 0.6m of palaeosol at the top of the bed