Jinjibang, Zhenzhou (JJB4) (Permian to of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (28.0° N, 104.7° E: paleocoordinates 6.2° N, 93.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Feixianguan Formation, Changhsingian to Changhsingian (254.2 - 250.5 Ma)

• Samples from this section represent the Permian-Triassic boundary (JJB1 - 8), earliest Triassic (JJB9) and Claraia assemblage (late Griesbachian; JJB10 - 12)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences (BGEG), Wuhan, China

Primary reference: T. Song, J. Tong, L. Tian, D. Chu, and Y. Huang. 2018. Taxonomic and ecological variations of Permian-Triassic transitional bivalve communities from the littoral clastic facies in southwestern China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 519:108-123 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205977: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 28.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria cf. ussurica Kiparisova 1938 pearl oyster
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Permophorus bregeri Girty 1927 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Neoschizodus orbicularis Bronn 1837 clam
Neoschizodus laevigatus Ziethen 1830 clam