Laowuji Section Bed 7 (PL27-14, PL26-14), Panxian County (Permian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (25.9° N, 104.5° E: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 95.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, brown, yellow siltstone and lithified, brown, yellow mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: Z. Q. Yao, J. T. Xu, Z. G. Zheng, X. H. Zhao, and Z. G. Mou. 1980. Late Permian Stratigraphy and Fossils in Western Guizhou and Eastern Yunnan 1-277 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112115: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Upper part of bed contains plants.
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Knoxitidae
 Palaeocopida - Hollinellidae
Hollinella panxiensis Wang 1978 ostracod
Bivalvia
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
? Wilkingia sp. Wilson 1959 clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
"Dentalium" sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell