Where: Yunnan, China (24.9° N, 99.1° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° S, 100.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: "B" Member (Dingjiazhai Formation), Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)
• latest Asselian to Early Sakmarian; Punctocyrtella australis - Punctospirifer afghanus assemblage
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone and lithified siltstone
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 61510: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.06.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
? Dielasma sp. King 1856 | |
Neospirifer cf. orientalis Chao 1929
Trigonotreta semicircularis n. sp. Shen et al. 2000 | |
Punctocyrtella australis Thomas 1971 | |
Punctospirifer afghanus Termier et al. 1974 | |
? Uncinunellina sp. Grabau 1932 |