Taiping, Bed 2 (lower), Pingguo County (Triassic of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (23.5° N, 107.6° E: paleocoordinates 5.3° N, 98.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Majiaoling Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)

• Lower part of 2.90 m thick bed

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. R. Yang, X. P. Wang, and W. C. Hao. 1986. Early Triassic bivalve assemblage of western Guangxi. Journal of Stratigraphy 10:88-97 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121129: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.11.2011

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop
Entolium discites Schlotheim 1820 scallop
 Pectinida - Claraiidae
Claraia "sp. A" Bittner 1901 scallop
Claraia "sp. B" Bittner 1901 scallop
"Claraia yunnanensis" = Claraia radialis Leonardi 1935 scallop
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Eumorphotis sp. Bittner 1901 scallop
Eumorphotis multiformis Bittner 1899 scallop
includes ssp. rudaecosta
Eumorphotis telleri Bittner 1899 scallop
ssp. tuberculata
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Towapteria sp. Nakazawa and Newell 1968 oyster
Towapteria scythica Wirth 1936 oyster
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
"Lingula tenuissima" = Lingularia tenuissima
"Lingula tenuissima" = Lingularia tenuissima Bronn 1837
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
"Crurithyris flabelliformis" = Orbicoelia flabelliformis, "Crurithyris" sp.
"Crurithyris flabelliformis" = Orbicoelia flabelliformis Liao 1979
"Crurithyris" sp. George 1931