Matan M47, Heshan (Permian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (23.8° N, 108.9° E: paleocoordinates 5.3° N, 99.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Heshan Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• Lower Changhsingian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Grey, thin to medium bedded bioclastic limestones with chert nodules and grey, dark medium bedded bioclastic limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: H. -Z. Pan and D. H. Erwin. 2002. Gastropods from the Permian of Guangxi and Yunnan Provinces, South China. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 56:1-49 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56892: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.11.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cycloneritida - Trachyspiridae
Trachyspira heshanensis n. sp. Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Retispira sinensis n. sp. Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
Bellerophon (Bellerophon) yochelsoni n. sp. Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
 Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
Cylindritopsis altica Wang 1980 snail
Strobeus dongluoensis Pan and Yu 1993 snail
Soleniscus micidus Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
Soleniscus pactus Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Zhonghuaspira gibbicircelloides" = Guizhouspira gibbicircelloides
"Zhonghuaspira gibbicircelloides" = Guizhouspira gibbicircelloides Wang 1982 snail
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
Murchisoniidae indet. Koken 1896 snail
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
Naticopsis (Jedria) quangxiensis n. sp. Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
Naticopsis (Naticopsis) heshanensis Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
 Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae
Palaeostylus sp. Mansuy 1914 snail