Where: Guizhou, China (25.9° N, 105.4° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 92.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Zhuganpo Formation, Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)
• Ammonites indicate late Ladinian age
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified limestone and lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: X. Wang, G. H. Bachmann, H. Hagdorn, P. M. Sanders, G. Cuny, X. Chen, C. Wang, L. Chen, L. Cheng, F. Meng, and G. Xu. 2008. The Late Triassic black shales of the Guanling area, Guizhou province, south-west China: a unique marine reptile and pelagic crinoid fossil lagerstätte. Palaeontology 51(1):27-61 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 85165: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.12.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Protrachyceras yongningense ceratite
Protrachyceras deprati Mansuy 1912 ceratite
Protrachyceras ladinum Mojsisovics 1882 ceratite | |
Bivalvia | |
Daonella sp. Mojsisovics 1874 oyster
Halobia sp. Bronn 1830 oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Norella "sp. 1" Bittner 1890
Norella "sp. 2" Bittner 1890 | |
"Laballa scabrula" = Mentzelia scabrula
"Laballa scabrula" = Mentzelia scabrula Jin et al. 1979 | |
Crinoidea | |
Encrinus liliiformis Lamarck 1801 Sea lily | |
Traumatocrinus sp. Woehrmann 1889 Sea lily | |
Holothuroidea | |
Calclamnella sp. Frizzell and Exline 1955 sea cucumber
Eocaudina sp. Martin 1952 sea cucumber | |
Tetravirga sp. Frizzell and Exline 1955 sea cucumber | |
Theelia sp. Schlumberger 1890 sea cucumber | |
Acanthotheelia sp. Frizzell and Exline 1955 sea cucumber | |
Conodonta | |
Metapolygnathus navicula, Metapolygnathus foliata, Metapolygnathus parafoliata, "Metapolygnathus nodosus" = Hayashiella nodosa, "Metapolygnathus polygnathiformis" = Paragondolella polygnathiformis
Metapolygnathus navicula conodont
Metapolygnathus parafoliata conodont
"Metapolygnathus nodosus" = Hayashiella nodosa Hayashi 1968 conodont
"Metapolygnathus polygnathiformis" = Paragondolella polygnathiformis Budurov and Stefanov 1965 conodont | |
Balanoglossites sp. Hantzschel 1962 |