Luang Prabang (Monod coll) (Permian of Laos)

Where: Laos (19.9° N, 102.2° E: paleocoordinates 13.0° S, 97.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Guadalupian (273.0 - 259.5 Ma)

• Presence of Neoschwagerina (=Yabeina) globosa, Doliolina (=Verbeekina) verbeei, Fusulina (=Parafusulina) japonica, and Sumatrina annae indicate Guadalupian age

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Monod

• Repository: Ecole des Mines, Paris (possibly now MNHN?)

Primary reference: H. A. Mansuy. 1908. Contribution à la Carte Géologique de l'Indo-China, Paléontologie 1-73 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139262: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.02.2013, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Verbeekinidae
Verbeekina verbeei
Doliolina verbeei
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
"Fusulina japonica" = Parafusulina japonica
"Fusulina japonica" = Parafusulina japonica Guembel 1874
 Fusulinoidea - Neoschwagerinidae
Sumatrina annae, "Neoschwagerina globosa" = Yabeina globosa
Sumatrina annae Volz 1904
"Neoschwagerina globosa" = Yabeina globosa Yabe 1906
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
"Rhynchonella wynnei" = Rhynchopora wynnei
"Rhynchonella wynnei" = Rhynchopora wynnei Waagen 1883