Where: Zhejiang, China (30.9° N, 120.1° E: paleocoordinates 17.3° N, 102.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Neogondella yini conodont zone, Changhsing Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified packstone and lithified, muddy wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• recovered from the surfaces of mudstone or marlstone or limestone slabs, forming total areas of 0.2 to 0.3 m2 for each sample. all of bryozoans, crinoids and fishes are excluded from quantitative analysis.

Primary reference: Z. Q. Chen, J. Tong, Z. Liao and J. Chen. 2010. Structural changes of marine communities over the Permian-Triassic transition: Ecologically assessing the end-Permian mass extinctiion and its aftermath. Global and Planetary Change 73:123-140 [N. Bonuso/N. Bonuso/N. Bonuso]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111856: authorized by Nicole Bonuso, entered by Nicole Bonuso on 29.06.2011

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