Yangjiaokeng, Chongyi County (Parawentzellophyllum assemblage) (Permian of China)

Where: Jiangxi, China (25.6° N, 114.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.1° S, 100.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chuanshan Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Parawentzellophyllum-Lytvophyllum-Koninckophyllum-Stereostylus assemblage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. G. Zhu and J. M. Zhao. 1992. Late late Carboniferous and earliest Permian rugose corals from Jiangxi. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 31(6):657-677 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121727: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Waagenophyllidae
Peiraphyllum anguiporum n. sp. Zhu and Zhao 1992 horn coral