Xiangbo reef, unit 30, Longlin County (Permian of China)

Also known as Reef 225

Where: Guangxi, China (24.9° N, 105.2° E: paleocoordinates 5.9° S, 97.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maokou Formation, Wordian (268.8 - 265.1 Ma)

• Neoschwagerina zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone and lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby, J. Fan, and W. Zhang. 1989. Sphinctozoan sponges from the Permian reefs of South China. Journal of Paleontology 63(4):404-439 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47447: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 25.02.2005, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Calcarea
 Calcaronea - Stellispongiidae
? Stellispongia sp.2 d'Orbigny 1849 calcareous sponge
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Intrasporeocoeliidae
Rhabdactinia depressa Rigby et al. 1989 demosponge
 Agelasida - Virgolidae
Intratubospongia minima1 Rigby et al. 1989 demosponge
 Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
Imbricatocoelia obconica Rigby et al. 1989 demosponge