Majiashan Section, lower Yinkeng Fm, Chaoxian, Chaohu City (Triassic of China)

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

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
"Cathaysia orbicularis" = Paryphella orbicularis Liao 1980
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Waagenites pigmaea" = Fusichonetes pygmaea
"Waagenites pigmaea" = Fusichonetes pygmaea Liao 1980