Shangsi Section, Changxing Formation, Guangyuan County (Permian of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (32.3° N, 105.5° E: paleocoordinates 10.0° N, 91.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Xu and R. E. Grant. 1994. Brachiopods near the Permian-Triassic boundary in South China. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 76:1-68 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120790: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
"Crurithyris pusilla" = Paracrurithyris pigmaea
"Crurithyris pusilla" = Paracrurithyris pigmaea Liao 1980
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
"Spirigerella guizhouensis" = Juxathyris guizhouensis
"Spirigerella guizhouensis" = Juxathyris guizhouensis Liao 1980