Jinya Section Jin23 (Triassic of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (24.6° N, 106.9° E: paleocoordinates 8.5° N, 96.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• About 6.8 m above base of measured section. 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 97145: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.07.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida -
Larenites reticulatus n. gen. Tozer 1994 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Gyronitidae
Lingyunites discoides Chao 1950 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Flemingitidae
Flemingites rursiradiatus Chao 1959 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Hedenstroemiidae
Mesohedenstroemia kwangsiana Chao 1959 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Aspenitidae
Aspenites acutus Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite
Pseudaspenites layeriformis Welter 1922 ceratite
Pseudaspenites evolutus Brayard and Bucher 2008 ceratite
Pseudaspenites tenuis Chao 1959 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Melagathiceratidae
Paranannites aspenensis Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite
Paranannites subangulosus Brayard and Bucher 2008 ceratite
Jinyaceras bellum n. gen. Brayard and Bucher 2008 ceratite
Hebeisenites varians n. gen. Chao 1959 ceratite
Hebeisenites compressus Brayard and Bucher 2008 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Pseudaspidites muthianus Krafft and Diener 1909 ceratite
Nanningites tientungense n. gen. Chao 1959 ceratite
Xiaoqiaoceras involutus n. gen. Brayard and Bucher 2008 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Dieneroceratidae
Dieneroceras tientungense Chao 1959 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Arctoceratidae
Submeekoceras hsuyuchieni Chao 1959 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Kashmiritidae
Preflorianites cf. radians Chao 1959 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Meekoceratidae
Juvenites cf. kraffti Smith 1927 ceratite