Matan 2, Heshan Formation, Matan Section, Heshan City: Changhsingian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Productida - Aulostegidae
Costisteges dongluoensis Liao 1982
2 individuals
Strophomenata - Productida
Spinomarginifera sp. Huang 1932
1 individual
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884
2 individuals
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Streptorhynchus sp. King 1850
3 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Elythidae
Phricodothyris sp. George 1932
1 individual
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
5 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Araxathyris sp. Grunt 1965
2 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Paraspiriferinidae
Paraspiriferina sp. (Reed 1944)
21 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Pontisiidae
Prelissorhynchia sp. Xu and Grant 1994
5 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Notothyrididae
Notothyris sp. Waagen 1882
34 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma sp. King 1856
17 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Acosarina sp. Cooper and Grant 1969
3 individuals
Cephalopoda
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847
1 individual
Gastropoda
Gastropoda informal genus C
8 individuals
Pan and Erwin (2002) genus C
Gastropoda - Cycloneritida - Trachyspiridae
Trachydomia sp. Meek and Worthen 1866
11 individuals
Trachyspira sp. Gemmellaro 1889
19 individuals
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Warthia sp. Waagen 1880
5 individuals
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Manzanospira sp. Batten 1989
22 individuals
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
Soleniscus sp. Meek and Worthen 1860
16 individuals
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Porcelliidae
Porcellia sp. Léveillé 1835
57 individuals
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Callitomaria sp. Batten 1956
52 individuals
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Anomphalidae
Anomphalus sp. Meek and Worthen 1866
3 individuals
Gastropoda
Pleurotomariacea indet. Swainson 1840
3 individuals
corrected as Pleurotomarioidea
Gastropoda - Naticopsidae
Naticopsis sp. M'Coy 1844
15 individuals
Gastropoda - Meekospiridae
Meekospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897
16 individuals
Gastropoda - Goniasmatidae
Platyzona sp. Knight 1945
1 individual
Gastropoda - Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae
Palaeostylus sp. Mansuy 1914
23 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Girtypecten sp. Newell 1938
1 individual
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860
1 individual
Hydrozoa
"Hydrozoa" indet. Owen 1843
309 specimens
Includes several varieties of "hydrozoa" and probably sponges
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Guadalupiidae
Cystothalamia sp. Girty 1908
3 individuals
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Thaumastocoeliidae
Sollasia sp. Steinmann 1882
12 individuals
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
? Dasycladacea indet. Radoicic 1969
Foliate probably dasycladacea
Boultoniidae
Palaeofusulina sp.
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guangxi
Coordinates: 23.8° North, 108.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.3° North, 99.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Lopingian
Stage:Changhsingian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 4
Key time interval:Changhsingian
Age range of interval:254.14000 - 251.90200 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Heshan
Local section:Matan
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,gray silty,cherty/siliceous bafflestone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Hydrozoan-algal bafflestone to packstone. Sparse chert nodules in uppermost part of bed. Bed is 10 cm thick.
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Geology comments: Inner shelf near sponge-algal patch reef.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,hydrochloric,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:50024
Authorizer:D. Bottjer Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-05-04 13:39:26 Last modified:2005-05-04 17:08:27
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-05-04 13:39:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13431. M. E. Clapham and D. J. Bottjer. 2007. Permian marine paleoecology and its implications for large-scale decoupling of brachiopod and bivalve abundance and diversity during the Lopingian (Late Permian). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 249:283-301 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]