Selong Xishan, Bed 5b (Permian of China)

Where: Xizang, China (28.7° N, 85.8° E: paleocoordinates 54.5° S, 62.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Selong Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Bed 5 in total is 8.50 m thick; Chonetella nasuta assemblage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, calcareous shale

• grey or yellowish grey calcareous thin-bedded shale, total thickness of bed 5: 8.50 m

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S.Z. Shen in 1996,1998

Primary reference: S. Z. Shen, N. W. Archbold, G. R. Shi and Z. Q. Chen. 2000. Permian brachiopods from the Selong Xishan Section, Xizang (Tibet), China. Part 1: Stratigraphy, Strophomenida, Productida and Rhynchonellida. Geobios 33(6):725-752 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73594: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Paraspiriferinidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae
Spiriferella rajah Salter 1865
Strophomenata
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
Retimarginifera xizangensis Shen et al. 2000
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Costatumulus tazawai n. sp. Shen et al. 2000
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae