Penglaitan Bed 3b, Laibin County (Permian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (23.7° N, 109.3° E: paleocoordinates 2.4° S, 101.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: xuanhanensis conodont zone, Maokou Formation, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Z. Shen and G. R. Shi. 2008. Latest Guadalupian brachiopods from the Guadalupian/Lopingian boundary GSSP section at Penglaitan in Laibin, Guangxi, south China and implications for the timing of the pre-Lopingian crisis. Palaeoworld 18:152-161 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117491: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida -
 Productida - Productellidae
Echinauris opuntia Waagen 1884
 Productida - Productidae