Matan M40, 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

• Dark-grey, medium-bedded siliceous striped limestone and chert nodules and bioclastic limestones intercalated with three coal layers

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 56895: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.11.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Stuoraxidae
"Straparollus (Straparollus) minutus n. sp." = Stuoraxis minutus
"Straparollus (Straparollus) minutus n. sp." = Stuoraxis minutus Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
 Heterostropha - Donaldinidae
"Donaldina heshanensis n. sp." = Royalella heshanensis, "Aclisina multicarinata n. sp." = Royalella multicarinata, "Donaldina eleganta n. sp." = Royalella eleganta, Donaldina quinquecarina
"Donaldina heshanensis n. sp." = Royalella heshanensis Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
"Aclisina multicarinata n. sp." = Royalella multicarinata Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
"Donaldina eleganta n. sp." = Royalella eleganta Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
Donaldina quinquecarina Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
 Heterostropha - Streptacididae
Laxella micra n. gen. n. sp. Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
Streptacis regularis n. sp. Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
Streptacis fragilis n. sp. Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
 Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae
Microlampra heshanensis n. sp., Microlampra orcula n. sp., "Holopea teres n. sp." = Heshanietta teres, "Holopea bacca n. sp." = Heshanietta bacca
Microlampra heshanensis n. sp. Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
Microlampra orcula n. sp. Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
"Holopea teres n. sp." = Heshanietta teres Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
"Holopea bacca n. sp." = Heshanietta bacca Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Meekospiridae
Girtyspira delicata n. sp. Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
Meekospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
? Meekospira solenisciforma n. sp. Nützel and Pan 2005 snail
 Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae
"Ploceozyga (Hyphantozyga) sp." = Hyphantozyga, "Microptychis charma n. sp." = Levizygopleura charma
"Ploceozyga (Hyphantozyga) sp." = Hyphantozyga Knight 1930 snail
"Microptychis charma n. sp." = Levizygopleura charma Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Goniasmatidae
"Platyzona luculenta n. sp." = Erwinispira luculenta, Platyzona nitella n. sp., Platyzona pulchella n. sp.
"Platyzona luculenta n. sp." = Erwinispira luculenta Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
Platyzona nitella n. sp. Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
Platyzona pulchella n. sp. Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
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Luoguispira multilinea n. sp. Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
Luoguispira lineata n. sp. Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Naticasinus sinus n. gen. n. sp.
Naticasinus sinus n. gen. n. sp. Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
 Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
Leptoptygma laetus n. sp. Pan and Erwin 2002 snail