Shaiwa, unit 5 (Permian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (25.6° N, 106.5° E: paleocoordinates 5.4° N, 96.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified limestone and lithified chert

• light-gray medium-bedded micritic limestone with gray black thin-bedded chert, 3.9 m thick

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: Q. Feng and S. Gu. 2002. Uppermost Changxingian (Permian) radiolarian fauna from southern Guizhou, southwestern China. Journal of Paleontology 76(5):797-809 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95319: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.04.2010

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Taxonomic list

Polycystina
 Latentifistularia - Cauletellidae
Ishigaum trifustis De Wever and Caridroit 1984
 Latentifistularia - Ormistonellidae
"Nazarovella inflata" = Quadriremis inflata
"Nazarovella inflata" = Quadriremis inflata Sashida and Tonishi 1986