Heilajia Section Bed 8 (HG-4), Liuzhi County (Triassic of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (26.2° N, 105.3° E: paleocoordinates 6.1° N, 95.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Feixianguan Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: All specimens are kept in the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Academia Sinica.

Primary reference: Z. Q. Yao, J. T. Xu, Z. G. Zheng, X. H. Zhao, and Z. G. Mou. 1980. Late Permian Stratigraphy and Fossils in Western Guizhou and Eastern Yunnan 1-277 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111978: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Knoxitidae
Langdaia suboblonga Wang 1978 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Hollinellidae
Hollinella tingi Patte 1935 ostracod
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria ussurica Kiparisova 1938 pearl oyster
ssp. variabilis
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
"Chonetes" sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830