Where: Guizhou, China (25.6° N, 106.7° E: paleocoordinates 9.2° N, 96.0° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by J.L. Payne in 2002

Collection methods: bulk, peel or thin section,

• Carbonate rock hand samples from outcrop.

Primary reference: J. L. Payne, M. Summers, B. L. Rego, D. Altiner, Y. Yu, J. Wei, and D. J. Lehrmann. 2011. Early and Middle Triassic trends in diversity, evenness, and size of foraminifers on a carbonate platform in south China: Implications for tempo and mode of biotic recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction. Paleobiology 37(3):409-425 [J. Payne/J. Payne/J. Payne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111104: authorized by Jonathan Payne, entered by Jonathan Payne on 19.06.2011

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