Jiangbaqianri, southern Kunlun Mountains (Permian of China)

Where: Xizang, China (35.3° N, 82.5° E: paleocoordinates 21.2° S, 66.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Lower Permian, formation not given but stated to be same age as other localities.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: Z. Q. Deng. 1982. Late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic fossil sponges of Xizang. Series of the Scientific Expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, Paleontology of Xizang 4:189-194 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107304: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Maeandrostiidae
Maeandrostia rostrata n. sp. Deng 1982 demosponge