Mao'ertang Section, Maokou Fm, Shangsi, Guangyuan County (Permian of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (32.3° N, 105.4° E: paleocoordinates 0.6° S, 91.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maokou Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• 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 103464: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Araxathyris sinensis2 Shen et al. 2004
Juxathyris sp.1 Liang 1990
Strophomenata
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
 Productida - Productellidae
"Marginifera elongata" = Neoplicatifera elongata Huang 1932
Neoplicatifera huangi Ustritsky 1960
 Productida - Productidae
"Tyloplecta grandicosta" = Tyloplecta grandicostata
"Tyloplecta grandicosta" = Tyloplecta grandicostata Chao 1927
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Chonetinella intercalata n. sp. Tong 1978
Striochonetes scutella Waterhouse and Piyasin 1970