Hwang-i-kang (Permian of China)

Also known as Huangnijiang

Where: Hunan, China (26.2° N, 112.9° E: paleocoordinates 5.8° N, 101.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Late Permian, probably Wuchiapingian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, white, blue shale

• Blue, white-weathering, clay

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen

Primary reference: F. Frech. 1911. Obere Neodyas von Hunan (Hwang-I-Kang am Lui-Ho, oberhalb Lui-Yang-Hsien) aus Ngan-Whei und Hupei. In F. von Richthofen (ed.), China: Ergebnisse Eigener Reisen und Darauf Gegründeter Studien 5:184-194 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123600: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Zhang et al. (1977) illustrate specimen of P. acuteplicatus figured by Frech
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Bellerophon" sp. de Montfort 1808 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Phestia hunanensis Ku and Chen 1963 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculopsis wymmensis Keyserling 1846 nut clam
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia tiesseni n. sp. Frech 1911 clam
Edmondia cf. nebrascensis Geinitz 1866 clam
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Wilkingia sp. Wilson 1959 clam
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
"Pleurophorus subovalis" = Permophorus subovalis, Gujocardita sp.
"Pleurophorus subovalis" = Permophorus subovalis Waagen 1881 clam
Gujocardita sp. Nakazawa and Newell 1968 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus pinguis Waagen 1881 clam
Schizodus compressus Waagen 1881 clam
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
 Pectinida - Euchondriidae
"Aviculopecten sinensis" = Euchondria sinensis
"Aviculopecten sinensis" = Euchondria sinensis Frech 1911 scallop