Yangou Section (Bed 18), Leping County (Permian of China)

Where: Jiangxi, China (29.2° N, 117.3° E: paleocoordinates 14.4° N, 101.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Changxing Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• 0.54 m thick, uppermost part of Changhsing Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Z. Pan, D. H. Erwin, A. Nützel and X. S. Zhu. 2003. Jiangxispira, a new gastropod genus from the Early Triassic of China with remarks on the phylogeny of the Heterostropha at the Permian/Triassic boundary. Journal of Paleontology 77(1):44-49 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60523: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Streptacididae
Streptacis sp. Meek 1871 snail
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
"Holopea" sp. Hall 1847 snail
Possibly Heshanietta