Matan Section ACT520, south bank, Heshan (Permian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (23.8° N, 108.9° E: paleocoordinates 5.3° N, 99.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: Z. Q. Deng. 1981. Upper Permian sponges from Laibin of Guangxi. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 20(5):418-427 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107298: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
"Spirigerella simplex" = Juxathyris guizhouensis Liao 1980
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
Oldhamina squamosa Huang 1932
Demospongiae
 Lithistida - Chiastoclonellidae
Actinocoelia ossa n. sp. Deng 1981 demosponge