Mayuanli, Jiugongqiao, Shaoyang County (Permian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (27.1° N, 111.3° E: paleocoordinates 6.0° N, 99.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Douling Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: Z.J. Fang. 1987. Bivalves from the upper part of the Permian in southern Hunan, China. Collection of Postgraduate Theses of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica 1987(1):349-411 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107816: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.04.2011

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo guizhouensis Chen and Lan 1976 clam
Palaeoneilo symmetricus n. sp. Fang 1987 clam
Palaeoneilo mcchesneyana Girty 1910 clam
Palaeoneilo shaoyangensis n. sp. Fang 1987 clam
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Phestia hunanensis Ku and Chen 1963 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculopsis wymmensis Keyserling 1846 nut clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
? Lopha murakamii Nakazawa and Newell 1968 oyster
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Permoperna trapezoidalis Kayser 1883 oyster
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Paradoxipecten jiaheensis Zhang 1981 scallop
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Stutchburia hunanensis Fang 1987 clam