Qingyun Section Bed 55 (FQ-47), Fuyuan County (Triassic of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (25.8° N, 104.4° E: paleocoordinates 5.3° N, 94.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kayitou Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, green, yellow siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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 112121: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria ussurica Kiparisova 1938 pearl oyster
ssp. variabilis and yabei
Pteria murchisoni Geinitz 1861 pearl oyster
ssp. qingyunensis
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
"Myophoria orbicularis" = Neoschizodus orbicularis
"Myophoria orbicularis" = Neoschizodus orbicularis Bronn 1837 clam
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula acutangula n. sp. Liao 1980
Lingularia sp. Biernat and Emig 1993