Wantze, Locality T5, Ch'ichiang-hsien (Permian of China)

Where: Chongqing, China (28.8° N, 106.5° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 95.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Longtan Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale

• Coal-bearing shales

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V.K. Ting

Primary reference: T. K. Huang. 1932. Late Permian Brachiopoda of southwestern China. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series B 9(1):1-138 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 110405: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.06.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
 Productida - Productidae
"Productus yangtzeensis" = Tyloplecta yangtzeensis
"Productus yangtzeensis" = Tyloplecta yangtzeensis Chao 1927
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
"Lyttonia sp." = Leptodus
"Lyttonia sp." = Leptodus Kayser 1883
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
"Chonetes" sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Squamularia aff. elegantula" = Permophricodothyris elegantula, "Squamularia grandis" = Permophricodothyris grandis
"Squamularia aff. elegantula" = Permophricodothyris elegantula Waagen 1883
"Squamularia grandis" = Permophricodothyris grandis Chao 1929
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
"Spiriferina cristata" = Spiriferellina cristata
"Spiriferina cristata" = Spiriferellina cristata von Schlotheim 1816
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
"Athyris globulina" = Cleiothyridina globulina
"Athyris globulina" = Cleiothyridina globulina Waagen 1883