Also known as Reef 224

Where: Guangxi, China (24.9° N, 105.2° E: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 96.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Unit 56, Changxing Formation (Rigby 1994); Upper Wujiaping or Lower Changxing Formation (Rigby 1989)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

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 47448: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 25.02.2005

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