Beipei County, middle Changxing Formation (Permian of China)

Where: Chongqing, China (29.8° N, 106.5° E: paleocoordinates 8.6° N, 93.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Middle part

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. S. Wu and J. M. Zhao. 1983. Late Permian corals from Zhejiang, Guangxi, and Sichuan provinces. Bulletin of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica 6:271-284 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120752: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Metriophyllidae
Asserculinia abnormis n. sp. Wu and Zhao 1983 horn coral