Daxi Section, Daluokeng Member 2 (Permian of China)

Where: Hunan, China (29.0° N, 110.8° E: paleocoordinates 10.4° N, 97.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 2 Member (Daluokeng Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic, intraclastic, gray packstone and lithified wackestone

• Bioclastic Limestone. Member 2: grey-dark grey, thick bedded wackestones-packstones, locally with intraclasts, dolomitization, with foraminifers, gastropods, brachiopods, bivalves, cephalopods, algae

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Xu and R. E. Grant. 1996. Reef-dwelling brachiopods from the late Permian of the central Yangtze river area, China. in: Copper, P. and Jin, J., eds., "Brachiopods" 305-311 [W. Kiessling/M. Apel/M. Apel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120799: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.11.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
Leptodus sp.
Leptodus sp. Kayser 1883
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Squamularia sp.
Squamularia sp. Gemmellaro 1899