Shangsi Section, Bed 28b (Triassic of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (32.3° N, 105.5° E: paleocoordinates 11.0° N, 91.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Feixianguan Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, green, yellow, silty claystone and lime mudstone

• Light yellow to yellowish green silty and montmorillonite clay with intercalations of thin-bedded micrite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected in 1984

Primary reference: Z. S. Li, Z. P. Zhan, J. Y. Dai, R. G. Jin, X. F. Zhu, J. H. Zhang, H. Q. Huang, D. Y. Xu, Z. Yan and H. M. Li. 1989. Study on the Permian-Triassic Biostratigraphy and Event Stratigraphy of Northern Sichuan and Southern Shaanxi 1-435 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48945: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 05.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Claraiidae
Claraia sp. Bittner 1901 scallop
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Towapteria sp. Nakazawa and Newell 1968 oyster
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Xenodiscidae
Hypophiceras sp. Trümpy 1969 ceratite