Penglaitan Section, Bed 31b (Permian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (23.7° N, 109.3° E: paleocoordinates 5.6° N, 99.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Heshan Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified chert and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S.Z. Shen; reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: M. Ehiro and S.-Z. Shen. 2010. Ammonoid succession across the Wuchiapingian/Changhsingian boundary of the northern Penglaitan Section in the Laibin area, Guangxi, South China. Geological Journal 45:162-169 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210124: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 21.05.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Pleuronodoceratidae
Pleuronodoceras sp., Qianjiangoceras sp.
Pleuronodoceras sp. Zhao and Liang 1965 ceratite
Qianjiangoceras sp. Zhao et al. 1978 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Pseudotirolitidae
Pernodoceras kwangsiense, Pseudotirolites cf. acutus
Pernodoceras kwangsiense Chao and Liang 1966 ceratite
Pseudotirolites cf. acutus Chao and Liang 1965 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Tapashanitidae
Tapashanites costatus
Tapashanites costatus Zhao et al. 1978 ceratite