Bed 6, Meishan C Section, Changxing Limestone, Zhejiang (Permian of China)

Where: China (31.1° N, 119.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.5° N, 102.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Changxing Limestone Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Bed 6: depth 1203-1217 cm

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified shale

• a carbonate wedge of slope facies
• black cherty and rich organic shale, laminated, containing quartz silt, bioclastic, mica and chert grains, with 3 cm thick clay bed at the bottom

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: Y. Wang, S. Shen, C. Cao, W. Wang, C. Henderson and Y. Jin. 2006. The Wuchiapingian-Changhsingian boundary (Upper Permian) at Meishan of Changxing County, South China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 26:575-583 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61866: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae
Clarkina "longicuspidata-wangi"
Clarkina "longicuspidata-wangi" Kozur 1990 conodont
transitional form