Zhongying Section Bed 33 (QZ-17), Qinglong County (Permian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (26.0° N, 105.1° E: paleocoordinates 5.1° N, 95.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, nodular, green, cherty/siliceous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 112017: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scyphozoa
 Conulariida - Conulariidae
Paraconularia "sp. B" jellyfish
Possibly same specimen as P. zhongyingensis or P. qinglongensis Zhu, 1985
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Pleuronodoceratidae
"Pleuronodoceras mapingensis" = Pleuronodoceras mapingense, ? Rotodiscoceras sp.
"Pleuronodoceras mapingensis" = Pleuronodoceras mapingense Sun 1933 ceratite
? Rotodiscoceras sp. Zhao and Liang 1966 ceratite
 Nautilida - Trigonoceratidae
Aulagonoceras plicatum n. sp. Zheng 1984
 Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Euphemites globosus Xi 1980 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Ptychosphaera" obesa n. sp. Wang 1980 snail
Strophomenata
 Productida -
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Knoxitidae
 Palaeocopida - Serenididae
 Podocopida - Healdiidae