Top of Changxing Fm., T5 (Permian of China)

Where: Jiangxi, China (28.7° N, 115.9° E: paleocoordinates 13.2° N, 100.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Changxing Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: N. Wang, F. Jin, W. Wang and X. Zhu. 2007. Actinopterygian Fishes from the Permian-Triassic Boundary Beds in Zhejiang and Jiangxi Provinces, South China and Mass Extinction, Recovery and Radiation. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 45(4):307-329 [M. Clapham/P. Elliott]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119495: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Phillip Elliott on 28.10.2011, edited by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Amiiformes - Caturidae
cf. Caturus sp. Agassiz 1834 bowfin