Shaiwa section, bed 4 (Permian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (25.6° N, 106.2° E: paleocoordinates 10.5° S, 95.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gaijiao Member (Sidazhai Formation), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, shelly/skeletal wackestone

• Grayish-black, thick-bedded, carbon-bearing micrite interbedded with calcareous-organic claystone, 30 cm thick, gray biomicritic calcarenite at bottom of bed with fusulinids

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: Z. R. Zhou. 2017. Permian basinal ammonoid sequence in Nanpanjiang area of South China - possible overlap between basinal Guadalupian and platform-based Lopingian. Journal of Paleontology 91(Memoir 74):1-95 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185578: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.04.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Eostaffellidae
Pamirina sp.
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
Parafusulina sp., Pseudofusulina sp., Robustoschwagerina aff. schellwieni
Parafusulina sp. Dunbar and Skinner 1931
Pseudofusulina sp. Dunbar and Skinner 1931
 Fusulinoidea - Schubertellidae
Toriyamaia sp.