Mendong, Wuxi County (Permian of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (31.4° N, 109.7° E: paleocoordinates 1.5° N, 94.9° 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 103466: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Aulostegidae
"Urushtenia chenanensis" = Urushtenoidea crenulata
"Urushtenia chenanensis" = Urushtenoidea crenulata Ting 1962