Matan M22, Heshan (Permian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (23.8° N, 108.9° E: paleocoordinates 1.5° N, 100.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Heshan Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Dark grey, thin-medium bedded to massive bioclastic limestones with a few chert nodules

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 56894: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon (Bellerophon) sp. de Montfort 1808 snail
 Murchisoniina - Porcelliidae
"Porcellia paucituberculata" = Porcellia magninodosa
"Porcellia paucituberculata" = Porcellia magninodosa Pan 1985 snail