Tsoteng Section T6 (Triassic of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (23.5° N, 107.0° E: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 97.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Flemingites rursiradiatus ammonoid zone, Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Flemingites rursiradiatus beds, not named as a formal zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Brayard and H. Bucher. 2008. Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid faunas from northwestern Guangxi (South China): taxonomy and biochronology. Fossils and Strata 55:1-179 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97135: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.07.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Hedenstroemiidae
Mesohedenstroemia kwangsiana Chao 1959 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Aspenitidae
Aspenites acutus Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite
Pseudaspenites layeriformis Welter 1922 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Flemingitidae
"Flemingites radiatus" = Flemingites nanus, Flemingites rursiradiatus1
"Flemingites radiatus" = Flemingites nanus Waagen 1895 ceratite
Flemingites rursiradiatus1 Chao 1959 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Melagathiceratidae
Jinyaceras bellum n. gen. Brayard and Bucher 2008 ceratite
Paranannites subangulosus Brayard and Bucher 2008 ceratite
Hebeisenites varians n. gen. Chao 1959 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Pseudaspidites muthianus Krafft and Diener 1909 ceratite
Nanningites tientungense n. gen. Chao 1959 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Arctoceratidae
Submeekoceras hsuyuchieni2 Chao 1959 ceratite