Pingqiao, P-1, Zhijin County (Permian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (26.7° N, 106.8° E: paleocoordinates 6.4° N, 96.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: All specimens are kept in the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Academia Sinica.

Primary reference: Z. T. Liao. 1980. Upper Permian brachiopods from western Guizhou. Late Permian Stratigraphy and Fossils in Western Guizhou and Eastern Yunnan 241-277 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51427: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 04.06.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Acosarina dorashamensis Sokolskaja 1965
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Araxathyris protea Abich 1878