Guanling, Upper Zhuganpo Formation (Triassic of China)

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

• relatively deep, quiet water below storm-wave base
• light grey, thin-bedded micritic limestones with typically undulating bedding planes; separated by thin, dark grey marlstones

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

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Trachyceratidae
Protrachyceras deprati Mansuy 1912 ceratite
Protrachyceras ladinum Mojsisovics 1882 ceratite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
Daonella sp. Mojsisovics 1874 oyster
Halobia sp. Bronn 1830 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Norellidae
Norella "sp. 1" Bittner 1890
Norella "sp. 2" Bittner 1890
 Spiriferinida - Mentzeliidae
"Laballa scabrula" = Mentzelia scabrula
"Laballa scabrula" = Mentzelia scabrula Jin et al. 1979
 Spiriferinida - Laballidae
Crinoidea
 Encrinida - Encrinidae
Encrinus liliiformis Lamarck 1801 Sea lily
 Encrinida - Traumatocrinidae
Traumatocrinus sp. Woehrmann 1889 Sea lily
Holothuroidea
 Dendrochirotida - Calclamnidae
Calclamnella sp. Frizzell and Exline 1955 sea cucumber
Eocaudina sp. Martin 1952 sea cucumber
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Tetravirga sp. Frizzell and Exline 1955 sea cucumber
 Apodida - Chiridotidae
Theelia sp. Schlumberger 1890 sea cucumber
 Apodida - Myriotrochidae
Acanthotheelia sp. Frizzell and Exline 1955 sea cucumber
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae
Metapolygnathus foliata conodont
subsp. inclinata
"Metapolygnathus nodosus" = Hayashiella nodosa Hayashi 1968 conodont
"Metapolygnathus polygnathiformis" = Paragondolella polygnathiformis Budurov and Stefanov 1965 conodont
 Ichnofossils -
Balanoglossites sp. Hantzschel 1962