Kaixingling, Hohxil, China (Permian of China)

Where: Qinghai, China (34.2° N, 92.3° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° S, 73.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Wuli Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Lower part of Wuli group underlying Changxingian Palaeofusulina-bearing

•limestone of the upper Wuli Group

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, carbonaceous claystone

• argillite within a coal-bearing, dominantly carbonaceous argillite unit

•of littoral-deltaic facies origin, in the lower Wuli Group.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Focus on bivalves

Primary reference: J. Sha and J. A. Grant-Mackie. 1996. Late Permian to Miocene bivalve assemblages from Hohxil, Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, China. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 26(4):429-455 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/J. Pálfy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56723: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 23.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Holopea sp.
Holopea sp. Hall 1847 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Rhabdotocochlis sp.
Rhabdotocochlis sp. Knight 1933 snail
 Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae
Polygyrina sp.
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Netschajewia jiangsuensis, "Netschajewia cf. modioliformis" = Stutchburia modioliformis
"Netschajewia cf. modioliformis" = Stutchburia modioliformis King 1844 clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Pernopecten sp.
Pernopecten sp. Winchell 1865 scallop
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805