Guangping DG-6, Datian (Permian of China)

Where: Fujian, China (26.1° N, 117.8° E: paleocoordinates 0.9° S, 100.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Qixia Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: W. J. Yi. 1993. Ostracode fauna from Lower Permian Chihsia Formation of Guangping in Datian, Fujian. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 32(5):561-586 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95702: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Leperditellocopida - Aparchitidae
Cyathus caperata Guan 1978 ostracod
 Leperditellocopida - Scrobiculidae
Roundyella simplicissima Knight 1928 ostracod
 Podocopida - Microcheilinellidae
Microcheilinella venusta Chen 1958 ostracod
Microcheilinella postspinosa Chen 1958 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Basslerella sp. Kellett 1935 ostracod
Basslerella tota Chen and Bao 1986 ostracod
Basslerella crassa Kellett 1935 ostracod
Basslerella firma Kellett 1935 ostracod
Basslerella ola Chen and Bao 1986 ostracod
Basslerella shaxianensis Yi 1990 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiocyprididae
Pseudobythocypris pediformis Knight 1928 ostracod
Silenites lenticularis Knight 1928 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia piscariformis Chen 1958 ostracod
Bairdia crassa Harlton 1929 ostracod
Bairdia girtyi Sohn 1961 ostracod
Bairdia kwanshanensis Chen 1958 ostracod
Bairdia dorsalta Yi 1993 ostracod
"Cryptobairdia hoffmanae" = Bairdia (Cryptobairdia) ostracod
"Cryptobairdia subseminalis" = Bairdia (Cryptobairdia) ostracod
Bairdia calida Chen 1958 ostracod
Lobobairdia sp. Kollmann 1963 ostracod
 Platycopida - Kloedenellidae
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Cavellina glandella Whitfield 1882 ostracod