Selong Xishan, Bed 12 (Permian of China)

Where: Xizang, China (28.7° N, 85.8° E: paleocoordinates 52.5° S, 63.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Selong Group, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• 0.25 m thick; Chonetella nasuta assemblage, possibly ranging into the Changhsingian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• coarse bioclastic limestone, 0.25 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S.Z. Shen in 1996,1998

Primary reference: S. Z. Shen, N. W. Archbold, G. R. Shi and Z. Q. Chen. 2000. Permian brachiopods from the Selong Xishan Section, Xizang (Tibet), China. Part 1: Stratigraphy, Strophomenida, Productida and Rhynchonellida. Geobios 33(6):725-752 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73604: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.06.2007, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Betaneospirifer shii Waterhouse 2004
 Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae
Nakimusiella selongensis n. gen. n. sp. Shen et al. 2001
Spiriferella rajah Salter 1865
Strophomenata
 Productida - Aulostegidae
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
? Costatumulus sp. Waterhouse 1983