Where: Anhui, China (31.6° N, 117.8° E: paleocoordinates 17.4° N, 99.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Yinkeng Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)
• 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 112387: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.07.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
"Cathaysia orbicularis" = Paryphella orbicularis, Paryphella sparsiplicata
"Cathaysia orbicularis" = Paryphella orbicularis Liao 1980
Paryphella sparsiplicata Liao 1984 | |
"Waagenites pigmaea" = Fusichonetes pygmaea
"Waagenites pigmaea" = Fusichonetes pygmaea Liao 1980 |