Yanshi Section, Yanshi Fm, Longyan County (Permian of China)

Where: Fujian, China (25.3° N, 117.2° E: paleocoordinates 11.5° N, 104.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

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 120795: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Fanichonetes campigia" = Neochonetes (Huangichonetes) substrophomenoides Huang 1932
 Productida - Productellidae
"Paryphella sulcatifera" = Paryphella sinuata, "Cathaysia orbicularis" = Paryphella orbicularis, Cathaysia spiriferoides
"Paryphella sulcatifera" = Paryphella sinuata Zhan 1979
"Cathaysia orbicularis" = Paryphella orbicularis Liao 1980
Cathaysia spiriferoides Xu and Grant 1994