Xin'an Northern 4 well, Wuxi County (Triassic of China)

Where: Jiangsu, China (31.5° N, 120.4° E: paleocoordinates 18.8° N, 101.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Basal part of formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: Z. T. Liao. 1984. New genus and species of Late Permian and earliest Triassic brachiopods from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 23:276-285 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112368: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae