Penglaitan Section, Bed 105 (Permian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (23.7° N, 109.3° E: paleocoordinates 5.6° N, 99.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Talung Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• the uppermost Changhsingian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S.Z. Shen; reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: S. Z. Shen, J. Ramezani, J. Chen, C.-Q. Cao, D. H. Erwin, H. Zhang, L. Xiang, S. D. Schoepfer, C. M. Henderson, Q.-F. Zheng, S. A. Bowring, Y. Wang, X.-H. Li, X.-D. Wang, D.-X. Yuan, Y.-C. Zhang, L. Mu, J. Wang, and Y. S. Wu. 2019. A sudden end-Permian mass extinction in South China. Geological Society of America [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206087: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 30.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Peltaspermopsida
 Peltaspermales - Cardiolepidaceae
? Phylladoderma sp. Zalessky 1914
Sphenopsida
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Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Taeniopteris sp. Brongniart 1828 cycads
 Trigonocarpales - Alethopteridaceae
Rhipidopsis
  -
 Gigantopteridales -
 Gigantopteridales - Gigantopteridaceae
 Bennettitales -
? Pterophyllum sp. Brongniart 1828
 Coniferales -
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
Polypodiopsida
  -
 Marattiales - Marattiidae
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Asterophyllites sp. Brongniart 1828