Wushihchung, Changlingpu, Tanchiashan, Xiangtan County (Permian of China)

Also known as Tanjiashan

Where: China (27.6° N, 112.9° E: paleocoordinates 2.5° S, 97.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, ferruginous, nodular mudstone

• inner shelf, close to detrital source
• Shale with abundant iron nodules

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C.Y. Xie in 1937

• During his Hunan excursion in April 1937, Prof. C. Y. Hsieh of the National Peking University collected a great number of cephalopods near Changlingpu, Siangtan, Hunan, enroute to Shuikoushan, Changning,

Primary reference: K. K. Chao. 1940. Upper Paleozoic cephalopods from central Hunan, China. Journal of Paleontology 14:68-73 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124006: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.02.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Aulametacoceras binodosum Zhao 1954 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Grypoceratidae
"Stenopoceras orientalis n. sp." = Stenopoceras orientale
"Stenopoceras orientalis n. sp." = Stenopoceras orientale Chao 1940 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Liroceratidae
"Coloceras sinensis n. sp." = Liroceras sinense
"Coloceras sinensis n. sp." = Liroceras sinense Chao 1940 nautiloid