Xiaoyuanchong, Bed 13, Jiahe (Permian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (25.8° N, 113.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.8° N, 102.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Douling Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by F.Y. Meng in the 1980s

Primary reference: S.Z. Shen and N. Archbold. 2002. Chonetoidea (Brachiopoda) from the Lopingian (Late Permian) of South China. Alcheringa 25:327-349 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117461: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Tethyochonetes flatus n. sp." = Fusichonetes flatus Shen and Archbold 2002
"Tethyochonetes soochowensis" = Fusichonetes soochowensis Chao 1928
 Productida -
 Productida - Productellidae
Echinauris opuntia2 Waagen 1884
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
 Productida - Permianellidae
Dicystoconcha lapparenti2 Termier et al. 1974
in Wang & Jin, 1991
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Acosarina minuta1 Abich 1878
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
? Juxathyris sp.2 Liang 1990