Yuejin coal mine, Xiujimqinqi: Wordian, China
collected by Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources of Nei Mongol 1950-1970

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospiriferinae indet. Waterhouse 1968
(1 measurement)
Kaninospirifer sp. Stepanov and Kulikov 1975
(1 measurement)
Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae
Spiriferella persaranae Grabau 1931
(3 measurements)
Spiriferella keilhavii (von Buch 1847)
(2 measurements)
Strophomenata - Productida - Paucispiniferidae
Anemonaria sublaevis (King 1931)
(2 measurements)
Strophomenata - Productida - Linoproductidae
? Cancrinella cancrini (de Verneuil 1845)
(1 measurement)
Strophomenata - Productida - Monticuliferidae
Compressoproductus corniformis (Chao 1927)
(1 measurement)
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Echinauris sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
(1 measurement)
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Rugosochonetidae indet. Muir-Wood 1962
(1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Nei Mongol
Coordinates: 44.5° North, 117.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.1° North, 99.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Guadalupian
Stage:Wordian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 4
Key time interval:Wordian
Age range of interval:266.90000 - 264.28000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Xiujimqinqi
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Spiriferella-Yakovlevia Assemblage, lower portion of the middle part of the formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collectors:Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources of Nei Mongol Collection dates:1950-1970
Collection method comments: Specimens housed in the Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Metadata
Database number:52085
Authorizer:T. Olszewski Enterer:L. Fall
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-07-20 13:18:49 Last modified:2011-09-25 19:24:37
Access level:the public Released:2005-07-20 13:18:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13956. G. R. Shi, S. Shen, and J.-I. Tazawa. 2002. Middle Permian (Guadalupian) brachiopods from the Xiujimqinqi area, Inner Mongolia, northeast China, and their palaeobiogeographical and palaeogeographical significance. Paleontological Research 6(3):285-297 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/L. Fall]