Guangping DG-12, Datian (Permian of China)

Where: Fujian, China (26.1° N, 117.8° E: paleocoordinates 0.6° N, 100.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Qixia Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 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 95708: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.04.2010

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Paraparchitidae
Paraparchites texanus Delo 1930 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Orthobairdia ponderosa Chen 1958 ostracod
Bairdiacypris fornicata Shi 1982 ostracod
Bairdia biacuta ostracod
Bairdia calida Chen 1958 ostracod
Bairdia lungtanensis Chen 1958 ostracod
Bairdia postacuta Chen 1958 ostracod
Bairdia geisi Kellett 1934 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiocyprididae
Silenites suborthis Yi 1993 ostracod
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Basslerella tota Chen and Bao 1986 ostracod
Basslerella crassa Kellett 1935 ostracod
 Leperditellocopida - Aparchitidae
Cyathus caperata Guan 1978 ostracod
Cyathus formosus Shi 1982 ostracod
 Leperditellocopida - Scrobiculidae
Roundyella simplicissima Knight 1928 ostracod