Shangsi Section, Bed 29 (Triassic of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (32.3° N, 105.5° E: paleocoordinates 11.0° N, 91.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Feixianguan Formation, Griesbachian (252.2 - 251.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, green, yellow, silty claystone and marl

• Yellowish green thin-bedded laminated illite and montmorillonite clay rock with minor intercalations of marls

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected in 1984

Primary reference: Z. S. Li, Z. P. Zhan, J. Y. Dai, R. G. Jin, X. F. Zhu, J. H. Zhang, H. Q. Huang, D. Y. Xu, Z. Yan and H. M. Li. 1989. Study on the Permian-Triassic Biostratigraphy and Event Stratigraphy of Northern Sichuan and Southern Shaanxi 1-435 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48948: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 05.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Taeniaesporites
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Cedripites
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Cedripites sp. Woodhouse 1933
Alisporites
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Alisporites sp. Daugherty 1941
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Claraiidae
Claraia griesbachi Bittner 1899 scallop
Claraia wangi Patte 1935 scallop
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Towapteria scythica Wirth 1936 oyster
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Anchignathodontidae
Hindeodus minutus Ellison 1941 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae
Neohindeodella triassica Müller 1956 conodont