Gaoqiao Section, Liangshan Fm, Mianzhu County (Permian of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (31.4° N, 104.1° E: paleocoordinates 8.6° S, 89.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Liangshan Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• Originally given as Qixia Formation, Liangshan Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. X. Tong. 1978. Carboniferous and Permian Brachiopoda. Palaeontological Atlas of Southwest China - Sichuan Volume 2:210-267 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 103453: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Orthothetina triangularis n. sp. Tong 1978