Dongluo section, Orthotetid sample 1, Fusui (Permian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (22.4° N, 107.7° E: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 99.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• upper Changhsing Formation, Late Changhsingian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: Z. Q. Chen and Z. T. Liao. 2007. Last orthotetid brachiopods from the uppermost Permian of south China. Journal of Paleontology 81(5):986-997 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74731: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Boultoniidae
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia nigpi n. sp. Chen and Liao 2007
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella fushuiensis n. sp. Chen and Liao 2007
Streptorhynchus ovata n. sp. Chen and Liao 2007
Tropidelasma elongata n. sp. Chen and Liao 2007
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Ombonia capilla n. sp. Chen and Liao 2007
Meekella dongluoensis n. sp. Chen and Liao 2007
Orthothetina sp. Schellwien 1900
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Pseudotirolitidae
Pseudotirolites sp. Sun 1933 ceratite