Niujiayuan coal mine, Dayugou, Gongyi County (Permian of China)

Where: Henan, China (34.7° N, 113.1° E: paleocoordinates 23.4° N, 88.6° E)

When: third coal Member (Shihezi Formation), Guadalupian (273.0 - 259.5 Ma)

• lower Shihezi third coal-bearing member

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; black, gray siltstone

• Environment based on presence of terrestrial plants and freshwater bivalves. North China coal basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: Q. B. Lin and X. Y. Liang. 1988. A Permian cockroach tegmen from Gongxian, Henan, China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 27(5):640-642 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131934: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 02.08.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Taeniopteris sp. Brongniart 1828 cycads
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
? Anthraconauta sp. Pruvost 1930 clam
Insecta
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
Phyloblatta parviradia n. sp. Lin and Liang 1988 winged insect
NIGPAS 90254