Longtan Section ACT912, Nanjing City (Permian of China)

Where: Jiangsu, China (32.2° N, 119.1° E: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 100.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Upper part of formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; 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 112375: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Paryphella sacoformis n. sp. Liao 1984