Beimenyan, Changxing Fm, Chengguan, Zhijin County (Permian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (26.7° N, 105.8° E: paleocoordinates 5.8° N, 95.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. L. Feng and Z. L. Jiang. 1978. Brachiopoda. Paleontological Atlas of Southwest China, Guizhou Volume 2:231-305 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95179: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Tschernyschewiidae
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae