Where: Guizhou, China (26.3° N, 106.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 9.7° S, 108.9° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Leidapo Member (Qingyan Formation), Pelsonian to Pelsonian (244.2 - 241.5 Ma)

• Basal upper Anisian. Schreyerites binodosus and Paraceratites trinodosus zones. Yuqing subformation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, calcareous claystone and lithified marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, peel or thin section,

• All abundance data given as "statistical individuals"

•Bivalves, brachiopods: Double-valved shells + higher number of single shells (right or left)

•Echinoderms, vertebrates: one indivudual if number of parts more than parts in living animal. crinoids > 150 columnalia = 1 individual,

•Others: all fragments as one

Primary reference: F. Stiller. 2001. Fossilvergesellschaftungen, Paläoökologie und paläosynökologische Entwicklung im Oberen Anisium (Mittlere Trias) von Qingyan, insbesondere Bangtoupo, Provinz Guizhou, Südwestchina. Münstersche Forschungen zur Geologie und Paläontologie 92:1-523 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31627: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 20.05.2003, edited by Marcus Apel and Sabine Nürnberg

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