Penglaitan Section, Bed 4 (Permian of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (23.7° N, 109.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.7° N, 100.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Heshan Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S.Z. Shen; reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: S. Z. Shen and G. R. Shi. 2007. Lopingian (Late Permian) brachiopods from South China. Part 1. Orthotetida, Orthida and Rhynchonellida. Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum 6:1-102 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138529: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.01.2013, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Araxoceratidae
Prototoceras sp. Spath 1930 ceratite
Konglingites sp. Zhao and Liang 1966 ceratite
Konglingites cf. laibinensis Yang and Xiong 1990 ceratite
 Goniatitida - Paragastrioceratidae
Pseudogastrioceras sp. Spath 1936 ammonite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Acosarina minuta Abich 1878