Yuping Section YR30 (Triassic of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (25.0° N, 106.5° E: paleocoordinates 5.8° N, 96.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Proptychites candidus ammonoid zone, Luolou Formation, Dienerian (250.5 - 251.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified lime mudstone and lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Brühwiler, A. Brayard, H. Bucher and G. D. Kuang. 2008. Griesbachian and Dienerian (Early Triassic) ammonoid faunas from northwestern Guangxi and southern Guizhou (south China). Palaeontology 51(5):1151-1180 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104973: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.02.2011, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Jieshaniceras guizhouense1 Zakharov and Mu 2007 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Mullericeratidae
Ussuridiscus varaha2 Diener 1895 ceratite