Gusong, Wangjiazhai Fm, Xuyong County (Permian of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (28.3° N, 105.2° E: paleocoordinates 6.8° N, 93.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wangjiazhai Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• Also listed as Changxing Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

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 103455: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida -
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Orthothetina ruber Frech 1911