Dongpan section, bed 12, Fusui County (Permian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (22.3° N, 107.7° E: paleocoordinates 3.5° N, 99.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed 12 of unit 3 of the Dalong Formation, ca. 0.6 m thick, last Changhsingian bed immediately below the Triassic Luolou Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified mudstone and lithified claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: Q. Feng, W. He, S. Gu, Y. Meng, Y. Jin and F. Zhang. 2007. Radiolarian evolution during the latest Permian in south China. Global and Planetary Change 55:177-192 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95341: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.04.2010, edited by Matthew Clapham and Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Radiolaria -
Copiconica solida radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Palaeolithocycliidae
Palaeolithocyclia pilata Feng et al. 2009 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
Paracopicyntra ziyunensis Feng and Gu 2002 radiolarian
Copicyntra "sp. 3" Nazarov and Ormiston 1985 radiolarian
Copicyntra "sp. 4" Nazarov and Ormiston 1985 radiolarian
Entactinia sashidai Feng 2007 radiolarian
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Pleuronodoceratidae
Qianjiangoceras sp. Zhao et al. 1978 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Xenodiscidae
Laibinoceras cf. compressum Yang 1987 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Huananoceratidae
Huananoceras sp. Zhao and Liang 1974 ceratite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Promyalina sp. Kittl 1903 clam
 Pectinida - Claraiidae
Claraia liuqiaoensis n. sp. He et al. 2007 scallop
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Posidonia sp. Bronn 1828 oyster
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
"Palaeoneilo qinzhouensis" = Palaeoneilo shaoyangensis
"Palaeoneilo qinzhouensis" = Palaeoneilo shaoyangensis Fang 1987 clam