Shawan, Qixia Fm, Leshan County (Permian of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (29.4° N, 103.6° E: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 91.1° 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: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. G. Jin, Z. T. Liao, and B. X. Fang. 1974. Permian brachiopods. Handbook of the Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Southwest China 308-313 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98058: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.09.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Cystomichelinia regularis n. sp. Wu and Wang 1974 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Tetraporellidae
 Stauriida - Kepingophyllidae
"Szechuanophyllum szechuanensis" = Szechuanophyllum szechuanense
"Szechuanophyllum szechuanensis" = Szechuanophyllum szechuanense Huang 1932 horn coral
Strophomenata
 Productida -