R 513, Southern Nanpan Section, Changning-Menglian Terrane (Permian of China)

Where: China (22.6° N, 100.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° S, 87.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Follicucullus monacanthus other zone, Laba Group, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• radiolarian zone: Follicucullus monacanthus Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified chert

• pinkish tuffaceous chert, thickness of the section is about 3 m, thickness of one chert bed is 2-5 cm

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original silica

Collection methods: chemical,

Primary reference: K. Kuwahara, A. Yao, and T. An. 1997. Paleozoic and Mesozoic complexes in the Yunnan area, China (Part 1): Preliminary report of Middle-Late Permian radiolarian assemblages. Journal of Geosciences, Osaka City University 40:37-49 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59976: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.04.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Protozoa
 Albaillellaria - Follicucullidae
"Pseudoalbaillella sp." = Parafollicucullus Holdsworth and Jones 1980 radiolarian
Follicucullus porrectus Rudenko 1984 radiolarian
Follicucullus monacanthus Ishiga and Imoto 1982 radiolarian
 Latentifistularia - Latentifistulidae
? Latentifistula spp. Nazarov and Ormiston 1983 radiolarian