Yansha Section, Jiahe Area (Permian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (25.6° N, 112.4° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 101.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by F.Y. Meng in the 1980s

Primary reference: S. Z. Shen and Y. C. Zhang. 2008. Earliest Wuchiapingian (Lopingian, Late Permian) brachiopods in southern Hunan, south China: implications for the pre-Lopingian crisis and onset of Lopingian recovery/radiation. Journal of Paleontology 82(5):924-937 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117499: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Streptorhynchus pelargonatus von Schlotheim 1816
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
 Productida -
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
 Productida - Productidae
? Tyloplecta sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
 Productida - Productellidae
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
 Productida - Aulostegidae
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
Leptodus sp. Kayser 1883
Gubleria huangi Wang and Jin 1964
Pararigbyella doulingensis n. sp. Shen and Zhang 2008
Pararigbyella quadrilobata n. gen. n. sp. Shen and Zhang 2008
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
 Rhynchonellida - Allorhynchidae
 Orthida - Enteletidae
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
 Spiriferinida - Paraspiriferinidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Martinia orbicularis Gemmellaro 1899
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia lata Grabau 1931
Hustedia remota Eichwald 1860
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Terebratulida - Notothyrididae