Meixianling, bed 3, Fengcheng County (Permian of China)

Where: Jiangxi, China (28.1° N, 115.8° E: paleocoordinates 8.9° N, 101.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Loping Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Bureau of Jiangxi

Primary reference: Z. S. Qin. 1986. New material of early Late Permian cephalopods in Fengcheng-Gaoan area, Jiangxi. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 25:272-283 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144027: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Anderssonoceratidae
Anderssonoceras cf. anfuense Grabau 1924 ceratite
Xiangulingites orbilobatus Zhao et al. 1978 ceratite
Planodiscoceras gratiosum Chao and Liang 1966 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Araxoceratidae
Kiangsiceras sp. Zhao and Liang 1965 ceratite
Prototoceras fengchengense Zhao et al. 1978 ceratite
Prototoceras venustum Zhao et al. 1978 ceratite
Prototoceras inflatum Zhao et al. 1978 ceratite
Eojiangxiceras meixianlingense n. gen. n. sp. Qin 1986 ceratite
 Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Tainoceras sp. Hyatt 1883
Meixianlingites capricornis n. gen. n. sp. Qin 1986