Majiashan Section Bed 5, Chaoxian County (Triassic of China)

Where: Anhui, China (31.6° N, 117.5° E: paleocoordinates 19.9° N, 99.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: 3 Member (Qinglong Formation), Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• 49 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, nodular limestone and lithified, calcareous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. H. Li and B. L. Ding. 1981. Two new lamellibranch genera from Lower Triassic of Anhui. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 20(4):325-330 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111494: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Hellenitidae
Hellenites sp. Renz and Renz 1948 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Columbitidae
Columbites sp. Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite
Columbites costatus Chao 1959 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Tirolitidae
Tirolites sp., "Tirolites cf. spinosus" = Tirolites cassianus
Tirolites sp. Mojsisovics 1879 ceratite
"Tirolites cf. spinosus" = Tirolites cassianus Quenstedt 1845 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Sibiritidae
Sibirites sp. Mojsisovics 1886 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Hedenstroemiidae
Pseudosageceras sp. Diener 1895 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Kashmiritidae
Pseudoceltites sp. Hyatt 1900 ceratite
 Phylloceratida - Palaeophyllitidae
Leiophyllites sp. Diener 1915 ammonite