Tangqiao, Shazhou County (Permian of China)

Where: Jiangsu, China (31.8° N, 120.7° E: paleocoordinates 14.5° N, 102.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Longtan Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Zhao, X. L. Liang, and Z. G. Zheng. 1978. Late Permian cephalopods of south China. Palaeontologica Sinica, New Series B 154(12):1-194 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120103: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Anderssonoceratidae
Leptogyroceras compressum Zhao et al. 1978 ceratite
Planodiscoceras involutum Zhao et al. 1978 ceratite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Waagenites wongiana" = Fusichonetes wongiana
"Waagenites wongiana" = Fusichonetes wongiana Chao 1928