Langdai Section HG6, Liuzhi County (Permian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (26.1° N, 105.3° E: paleocoordinates 5.1° N, 95.4° 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

• oxygenated, nearshore shallow water; marine limestone facies of the Changhsingian brachiopod fauna of South China

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 51428: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 04.06.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Tethyochonetes liaoi" = Fusichonetes soochowensis
"Tethyochonetes liaoi" = Fusichonetes soochowensis Chao 1928