Ning-kwo-hsien (Permian of China)

Also known as Ningguo

Where: Anhui, China (30.7° N, 119.0° E: paleocoordinates 12.7° N, 102.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• "Upper Permian" age given by Li et al. (1982), Wuchiapingian because Paraceltites pseudo-opalinus belongs to Huananoceras (is synonymous with Hunanoceras involutum).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen

Primary reference: F. Frech. 1895. Ueber palaeozoische Faunen aus Asien und Nordafrika. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 2:47-67 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 102134: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

• Li et al. (1982) re-figure specimen of N. yangtzeensis illustrated by Frech
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
"Camerophoria acuminata" = Stenoscisma acuminata
"Camerophoria acuminata" = Stenoscisma acuminata Gemmellaro 1899
 Terebratulida - Notothyrididae
Notothyris minuta Waagen 1882
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Huananoceratidae
"Paraceltites pseudoopalinus n. sp." = Huananoceras pseudoopalinum
"Paraceltites pseudoopalinus n. sp." = Huananoceras pseudoopalinum Frech 1895 ceratite
 Goniatitida - Gastrioceratidae
"Gastrioceras" sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
Probably Pseudogastrioceras szechuanensis
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Nucula yangtseensis n. sp." = Nuculopsis yangtzeensis
"Nucula yangtseensis n. sp." = Nuculopsis yangtzeensis Frech 1911 nut clam