Zhongying Section Bed 38 (QZ-26), Qinglong County (Permian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (26.0° N, 105.1° E: paleocoordinates 4.9° N, 95.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dalong Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• Upper Changhsingian part of Dalong formation according to Owens (2003).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: All specimens are kept in the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Academia Sinica.

Primary reference: Z. Q. Yao, J. T. Xu, Z. G. Zheng, X. H. Zhao, and Z. G. Mou. 1980. Late Permian Stratigraphy and Fossils in Western Guizhou and Eastern Yunnan 1-277 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112011: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Boultoniidae
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
"Tainoceras guizhouensis" = Tainoceras guizhouense
"Tainoceras guizhouensis" = Tainoceras guizhouense Zheng 1984 nautiloid
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limipectinidae
Acanthopecten sp. Girty 1903 scallop
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
 Productida -
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Acropyge multisegmenta n. gen. n. sp.1
Acropyge multisegmenta n. gen. n. sp.1 Qian 1977 trilobite