Matan Section Act506, Heshan (Permian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (23.8° N, 108.9° E: paleocoordinates 1.5° N, 100.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: H. J. Wang. 1982. Late Permian gastropods from Heshan of Laibin, Guangxi Province. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 21:491-496 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120145: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neritoina - Neritopsidae
Magnicapitatus angulus Wang 1980 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon "sp. 2" de Montfort 1808 snail
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
"Murchisonia" sp. d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Coelostylinidae
Omphaloptycha angustaperta n. sp. Wang 1982 snail