Pingdingshan, Bed 3, Chaohu City (Permian of China)

Where: Anhui, China (31.6° N, 117.8° E: paleocoordinates 3.2° N, 96.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Qixia Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• 25.41 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, black, gray, carbonaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. C. Chen, Y. Y. Yan, and D. L. Qi. 1983. Chusenophyllum (Rugose coral) from the Chihsia Formation of Lower Permian, southern Anhui. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 22(5):510-516 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100197: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Staffellidae
Sphaerulina sp.
 Fusulinoidea - Verbeekinidae
Misellina claudiae
Misellina claudiae Deprat 1912
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Waagenophyllidae
"Wentzellophyllum volzi" = Wentzelophyllum volzi, "Liangshanophyllum sp." = Waagenophyllum (Liangshanophyllum)
"Wentzellophyllum volzi" = Wentzelophyllum volzi Yabe and Hayasaka 1915 horn coral
"Liangshanophyllum sp." = Waagenophyllum (Liangshanophyllum) Tseng 1949 horn coral
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Yatsengia sp.
Yatsengia sp. Huang 1932 horn coral
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Cystomichelinia vesiculosa, Cystomichelinia huainingensis, Protomichelinia sp.
Protomichelinia sp. Yabe and Hayasaka 1915 tabulate coral