Waili fall section FW4-5: Smithian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Arctoceratidae
Submeekoceras mushbachanum (White 1879)
Arctoceras sp. Hyatt 1900
(1 measurement)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Pseudaspidites muthianus (Krafft and Diener 1909)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Melagathiceratidae
Jinyaceras n. gen. bellum Brayard and Bucher 2008
Paranannites aff. aspenensis Hyatt and Smith 1905
(2 measurements)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Flemingitidae
Flemingites flemingianus (de Koninck 1863)
(1 measurement)
    = Flemingites rursiradiatus Chao 1959
Brühwiler et al. 2012
Flemingites rursiradiatus Chao 1959
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Hedenstroemiidae
Mesohedenstroemia kwangsiana Chao 1959
Pseudosageceras multilobatum Noetling 1905
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Aspenitidae
Pseudaspenites layeriformis (Welter 1922)
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guangxi
Coordinates: 24.7° North, 106.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.6° North, 96.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
Stage:Olenekian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Smithian Ammonoid zone: Flemingites rursiradiatus
Age range of interval:251.30000 - 247.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Luolou
Local section:Waili Fall Local bed:5.2 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Flemingites rursiradiatus beds, not formally named as a zone.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified lime mudstone
Environment:slope
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:97183
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-07-18 19:32:04 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2010-07-18 19:32:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

32448. 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]

Secondary references:

44696 T. Brühwiler, H. Bucher, D. Ware, E. Schneebeli-Hermann, P. A. Hochuli, G. Roohi, K. Rehman and A. Yaseen. 2012. Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from the Salt Range, Pakistan. Special Papers in Palaeontology 88:5-114 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]