Lekang, unit 3: Changhsingian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa - Latentifistularia
Gustefana obliqueannulata Kozur 1993
common category
Protozoa - Latentifistularia - Ormistonellidae
Nazarovella gracilis De Wever and Caridroit 1984
common category
Protozoa - Latentifistularia - Cauletellidae
Ishigaum trifustis De Wever and Caridroit 1984
common category
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
? Entactinosphaera sp. Foreman 1963
rare category
Hegleria mammilla (Sheng and Wang 1985)
common category
Uberinterna sp. Sashida and Tonishi 1988
rare category
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guizhou County:Wangmo
Coordinates: 25.1° North, 106.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.8° North, 96.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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:Qiaoma
Local section:Lekang Local bed:3
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified siltstone
Secondary lithology: lithified chert
Lithology description: black thin-bedded chert, 3.63 m thick
Environment:basinal (siliceous)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:95322
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2010-04-12 05:07:40 Last modified:2010-04-12 08:07:40
Access level:the public Released:2010-04-12 05:07:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

32433. Q. Feng and S. Gu. 2002. Uppermost Changxingian (Permian) radiolarian fauna from southern Guizhou, southwestern China. Journal of Paleontology 76(5):797-809 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]