Shaiwa section, bed 2 (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

• Dark-gray medium- to thick-bedded biodebris-bearing marlstone

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 185579: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.04.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Eostaffellidae
"Pamirina aff. pulchra" = Pamirina (Levenella) pulchra Wang and Sun 1973
 Fusulinoidea - Staffellidae
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
Rugosofusulina sp. Rauser-Chernousova 1937
Eoparafusulina sp. Coogan 1960
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Waagenophyllidae
Lonsdaleiastraea sp. Gerth 1922 horn coral