Daluokeng section, Cili County, red algal–coral community (Permian of China)

Also known as Reef 2148

Where: Hunan, China (29.4° N, 110.9° E: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 97.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 1 Member (Changxing Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone

• 4 km long coral-sponge reef tract.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• Data refer to coral reef

Primary reference: W. Chen, Y. Wang, Y. Huang, T. Wang, Z. Yi and W. Kiessling. 2020. Reef‑building red algae from an uppermost Permian reef complex as a fossil analogue of modern coralline algal ridges. Facies 66(22) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224637: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 24.03.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• All data not explicitely reffered to the sponge reef are included
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Waagenophyllidae
Waagenophyllum ciliense Shen et al. 1998 horn coral
"Waagenophyllum asperum" = Waagenophyllum (Waagenophyllum) asperum Zhao 1981 horn coral
"Waagenophyllum carinatum" = Waagenophyllum (Waagenophyllum) carinatum Xu 1977 horn coral
Waagenophyllum wuae Minato and Kato 1965 horn coral
Waagenophyllum stereoseptatum Wu and Wang 1974 horn coral
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906