Sanmenjiang II (Permian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (24.3° N, 109.5° E: paleocoordinates 1.9° S, 100.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: "Gufeng" Formation, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• sample R2863, basal part of the "Gufeng" Formation, Follicucullus scholasticus-Follicucullus ventricosus zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified chert

• red bedded chert

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: A. Yao, K. Kuwahara, J. Yao, Z. Ji, and J. Li. 2007. Permian radiolarians from the so-called Gufeng Formation of the Laibin-Liuzhou area, Guangxi, China. Journal of Geosciences 50(6):67-81 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95737: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.04.2010

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Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Latentifistularia - Ormistonellidae
"Raciditor gracilis" = Quadricaulis
"Raciditor gracilis" = Quadricaulis radiolarian
 Albaillellaria - Follicucullidae
Follicucullus porrectus Rudenko 1984 radiolarian
 Albaillellaria - Albaillellidae
? Albaillella sp. Deflandre 1952 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
Hegleria sp. Nazarov and Ormiston 1985 radiolarian