Where: Xinjiang, China (39.8° N, 77.9° E: paleocoordinates 27.2° N, 67.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Piqiang Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, oncoidal, shelly/skeletal grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical, peel or thin section,
• Good taxonomic data only on brachiopods. Prevailing sponges not studied
Primary reference: Z. Q. Chen. 2004. Lower Permian reef-dwelling brachiopod faunas from the Tarim Basin, Northwest China: biostratigraphy, palaeoecology and biogeography. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 272(1-4):1-96 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 105228: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
? Phricodothyris bachuensis Chen and Shi 2002
? Astegosia sp. Cooper and Grant 1969
"Anomaloria dorsatusa" = Permophricodothyris indica Waagen 1883 | |
Cathayspirina fenshuijiangensis Liang 1990 | |
Cartorhium rhomboidalis Jin and Ye 1979 | |
Enteletes talimuheensis Chen 2004 | |
Stenoscisma mutabilis Tschernyschew 1902 | |
Gefonia sp. Licharew 1936
Gefonia sinuata Zhang 1983 | |
? Fredericksolasma sublaevis Waagen 1882 | |
"Dielasma gigantea" = Dielasma giganteum
"Dielasma gigantea" = Dielasma giganteum Tschernyschew 1902 | |
Lowenstamia gegyaiensis Sun 1991 |