Jueqian Bed 45, Fenghai, Yong'an County (Permian of China)

Where: Fujian, China (26.0° N, 117.2° E: paleocoordinates 12.2° N, 103.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 0.7 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, yellow siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: M. Q. Wang. 1990. Late Permian and early Early Triassic ammonoid fauna of Fenghai, Yong'an, Fujian and their stratigraphic significance. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 29:755-773 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95493: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Pseudotirolitidae
Pseudotirolites sp. Sun 1933 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Xenodiscidae
? Xenodiscus sp. Waagen 1879 ceratite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten sp. Waterhouse 1963 scallop
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae