Beifengjing Section, Bed 31, Zhongliang Hill: Changhsingian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Acosarina dorsisulcata Cooper and Grant 1969
synonym of Acosarina minuta
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Uncinunellina sp. Grabau 1932
Strophomenata - Productida - Lyttoniidae
Leptodus sp. Kayser 1883
Strophomenata - Productida
Spinomarginifera sp. Huang 1932
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Cathaysia sp.
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Orthothetina regularis (Huang 1933)
Meekella sp.
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Waagenites pigmaea (Liao 1980)
corrected as Fusichonetes pygmaea
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Chongqing
Coordinates: 29.5° North, 106.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.3° North, 93.9° East
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
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:Changxing
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 0.06 m thick. Post-extinction Changhsingian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified siltstone
Lithology description: Gray siltstone (Clapham pers. obs.)
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:94987
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-04-02 17:06:58 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2010-04-02 17:06:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

30359. S. Z. Shen and X. L. He. 1991. Changhsingian brachiopod assemblage sequence in Zhongliang Hill, Chongqing. Journal of Stratigraphy 15(3):189-196 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

29971 S. Z. Shen, X. L. He, and G. R. Shi. 1995. Biostratigraphy and correlation of several Permian-Triassic boundary sections in southwestern China. Journal of Southeast Asian Earth Sciences 12(1-2):19-30 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]