Where: Guizhou, China (25.6° N, 106.2° E: paleocoordinates 5.2° N, 96.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: 4 Member (Shaiwa Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)
• Top part of Unit 2
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, cherty/siliceous lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: Repository: Laboratory of Geobiology, Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan
Primary reference: W. H. He, G. R. Shi, and Y. Zhang, T. L., F. Teng and S. B. Wu. 2012. Systematics and palaeoecology of Changhsingian (Late Permian) Ambocoeliidae brachiopods from South China and implications for the end-Permian mass extinction. Alcheringa 36:515-530 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136832: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Paracrurithyris pigmaea Liao 1980
Attenuatella mengi He et al. 2007 |