R 514, Southern Nanpan Section, Changning-Menglian Terrane, Yunnan, China (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: Laba Group, Capitanian (265.1 - 259.9 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 59984: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.04.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Albaillellaria - Albaillellidae
Albaillella spp. Deflandre 1952 radiolarian
 Albaillellaria - Follicucullidae
Follicucullus spp. Ormiston and Babcock 1979 radiolarian
Follicucullus ventricosus Ormiston and Babcock 1979 radiolarian
Follicucullus monacanthus Ishiga and Imoto 1982 radiolarian
"Pseudoalbaillella sp." = Parafollicucullus Holdsworth and Jones 1980 radiolarian
Pseudoalbaillella cf. globosa Ishiga and Imoto 1982 radiolarian
 Latentifistularia - Latentifistulidae
Latentifistula sp. Nazarov and Ormiston 1983 radiolarian
sp. B
? Latentifistula spp. Nazarov and Ormiston 1983 radiolarian
unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836