Bingmajie, Baoshan Block (Permian of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (25.0° N, 99.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.6° S, 103.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: "A" Member (Dingjiazhai Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• Bandoproductus qingshuigouensis - Marginifera semigratiosa assemblage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone and lithified sandstone

• dark gray, nonstratified glacial-marine diamictites, clasts occupy about 30-50 % of the diamictites and are mostly limestone fragments and cherts

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by K.Y. Zhu; reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: S. Z. Shen, G. R. Shi, and K. Y. Zhu. 2000. Early Permian Brachiopods of Gondwana affinity from the Dingjiazhai Formation of the Baoshan Block, western Yunnan, China. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 106(3):263-282 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61505: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.06.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
? Punctocyrtella yunnanensis n. sp.
? Punctocyrtella yunnanensis n. sp. Shen et al. 2000
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Orthotichia magnifica
 Spiriferida - Choristitidae
Brachythyrina peregrina
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Spirelytha petaliformis
Strophomenata
 Productida -
Marginifera semigratiosa
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Linoproductus sp.